Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20010328002015.00acd850@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: adrian/mail-syd DOT lidcam DOT com DOT au AT 127 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 00:22:19 +1000 To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: Adrian Carter Subject: Shadow Framebuffer Test, RTFM [Was Re: WindowMaker with Cygwin NetRelease & W2kPro] In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010327190741.00ae9b30@127.0.0.1> References: <3AC02497 DOT F47447F7 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <5 DOT 0 DOT 2 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 20010327125829 DOT 020ac378 AT 127 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Ok, Ive finished thwacking myself on the head now and chanting RTFM =) after a few brief searches, my alt-tab prob and color pallete are solved via the Shadow Framebuffer Xwin.exe binary. Thanks! Adrian At 07:13 PM 27/03/2001 +1000, Adrian Carter wrote: >Thanks for the various replies. Big thanks to Kevin Wright who was first >in with the correct answer. > >Survey Says, to make WindowMaker-0.60.0 work in the latest Cygwin you must >download the source, unpack it and make it. > >Thankfully, it builds OOB, however, it still needs (or at least here did) >some kludging to get it to present a useful interface. None of the >applications work 100% and I can't get themes working correctly, as it >seems to be using a strange color pallete reminiscent of Netscape 2.0 >installs on linux 4 years ago... its there, but the pallete's shifted like >10 or 12 colors and its got about half the pallete it should have. I tried >starting X with 1024x768x24 but this produces a DirectDraw error. x16 Im >gathering does not provide a deep enough pallete for the themes Im using. > >One other annoying thing is regardless of if I use the startxwin.bat from >W2k Explorer or if I startx from a bash prompt, it will not alt-tab to >windows without crashing. > >If anyone has any further suggestions to help with the above, please drop >me a line! =) > >Thanks guys! > >Adrian >(Another happy Cygwin user from here on out...) > >I guess im going to have to dust off my X skills and build some menus that >work and go forth and install all the X tools I need. > > >At 12:26 AM 27/03/2001 -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >>It looks like WindowMaker was compiled using DLL's that are even OLDER >>than the ones I provide (for backward compatability only) in >>old-dlls.tar.gz. Unfortunately, unless the site where you got >>WindowMaker also distributes the appropriate versions of the dlls (such >>as libz.dll) you're out of luck. :-( >> >>I seem to recall that WindowMaker builds OOB (but I haven't done it >>myself), so you could try to build WindowMaker yourself (and thus >>linking to the latest dlls...) >> >>--Chuck >> >>P.S. rebuilding libpng probably won't help (unless you're extremely >>lucky). You need to rebuild WindowMaker. >> >>Adrian Carter wrote: >> > >> > G'Day all >> > Ive downloaded and installed Cygwin useing setup.exe, downloaded >> > and installed the Xfree binaries, donwloaded the contrib directory and am >> > trying to instal windowmaker... however, I get an error reporting >> > libpng.dll couldnt be found. >> > I couldnt locate one anywhere in the install, so I downloaded >> some >> > 'old-dlls.tar.gz' file that I found via a search, and this worked, >> except I >> > now get: >> > "The procedure entry point ingflateInit_ could not be located in the DLL >> > libz.dll" >> > >> > Anyone shed some light or can offer me some hints? 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