From yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net Thu Oct 1 03:42:00 2009 From: yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net (Yaakov (Cygwin/X)) Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:42:00 -0000 Subject: [1.7] Updated: xorg-server-1.6.4-1 Message-ID: <4AC424FA.7070608@users.sourceforge.net> The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: * xorg-server-1.6.4-1 This package contains XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers. This is an update to the latest stable version, and likely the last of the 1.6 series. The following patch has been REVERTED in this release: * "Use bash login shell to execute the commands started from the tray menu": This could cause lengthly delays in launching programs depending on the contents of the user's .bash_profile. Instead, xinit-1.1.1-5 launches XWin itself in a login shell, which should have the same effect. 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From yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net Thu Oct 1 03:42:00 2009 From: yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net (Yaakov (Cygwin/X)) Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:42:00 -0000 Subject: [1.7] Updated: xinit-1.1.1-5 Message-ID: <4AC424E8.3080004@users.sourceforge.net> The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: * xinit-1.1.1-5 This package includes the startx, startxdmcp.bat, startxwin.bat, and startxwin.sh commands for launching the XWin server. This releases fixes a few bugs in startxwin.{bat,sh}: * Launch XWin from within a bash login shell, so programs launched by the XWin tray menu are within a regular environment. * Wait for XWin to be ready to accept connections before launching xterm. (This adds a dependency on run2.) * Delete only the socket for the display which we are about to launch, to avoid clobbering other XWin instances running in other DISPLAYs. 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From yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net Thu Oct 1 03:42:00 2009 From: yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net (Yaakov (Cygwin/X)) Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:42:00 -0000 Subject: [1.7] Updated: fontconfig-2.7.3-1 Message-ID: <4AC424E0.5050109@users.sourceforge.net> The following packages have been updated for Cygwin 1.7: *** fontconfig-2.7.3-1 *** libfontconfig1-2.7.3-1 *** libfontconfig-devel-2.7.3-1 Fontconfig is a library designed to provide system-wide font configuration, customization and application access. This is an update to the latest upstream release. Yaakov Cygwin/X CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO ====================================== If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-xfree-announce mailing list, please use the automated form at: http://cygwin.com/lists.html#subscribe-unsubscribe If this does not work, then look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-xfree-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. From yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net Thu Oct 1 08:33:00 2009 From: yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net (Yaakov (Cygwin/X)) Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:33:00 -0000 Subject: [1.7] Updated: gvim-7.2.264-1 Message-ID: <4AC468BC.4000604@users.sourceforge.net> The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: *** gvim-7.2.264-1 gVim provides a GTK+ GUI for the Vim text editor. This release is an update to the latest patch for 7.2. This release also uses the alternatives system, together with the concurrent vim release. By installing gvim, the symlinks vim, vimdiff, view, rvim, and rview will also point to gvim. When called by one of these names, the terminal interface will be used unless the '-g' argument is provided. Yaakov Cygwin/X CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO ====================================== If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-xfree-announce mailing list, please use the automated form at: http://cygwin.com/lists.html#subscribe-unsubscribe If this does not work, then look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-xfree-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. From yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net Fri Oct 2 16:45:00 2009 From: yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net (Yaakov (Cygwin/X)) Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:45:00 -0000 Subject: [1.7] Updated: luit-1.0.4-1 Message-ID: <4AC62D16.2060601@users.sourceforge.net> The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: *** luit-1.0.4-1 This is an update to the latest upstream version, and should fix several bug reports which have been reported to the list lately. Yaakov Cygwin/X CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO ====================================== If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-xfree-announce mailing list, please use the automated form at: http://cygwin.com/lists.html#subscribe-unsubscribe If this does not work, then look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-xfree-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. From yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net Tue Oct 6 04:50:00 2009 From: yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net (Yaakov (Cygwin/X)) Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:50:00 -0000 Subject: [1.7] New: libsoup2.4-2.26.3-2 Message-ID: <4ACACC78.2050000@users.sourceforge.net> The following packages have been added to the Cygwin 1.7 distribution: *** libsoup2.4_1-2.26.3-2 *** libsoup2.4-devel-2.26.3-2 *** libsoup-gnome2.4_1-2.26.3-2 *** libsoup-gnome2.4-devel-2.26.3-2 LibSoup is a GObject HTTP library that is used by numerous GNOME packages as a component of the GNOME Desktop suite. 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From yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net Tue Oct 6 19:14:00 2009 From: yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net (Yaakov (Cygwin/X)) Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:14:00 -0000 Subject: [1.7] Updated: luit-1.0.4-2 Message-ID: <4ACB96C8.9080503@users.sourceforge.net> The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: *** luit-1.0.4-2 This release adds a patch to make sure the tty allocated by luit becomes the controlling tty: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-10/msg00032.html Yaakov Cygwin/X CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO ====================================== If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-xfree-announce mailing list, please use the automated form at: http://cygwin.com/lists.html#subscribe-unsubscribe If this does not work, then look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-xfree-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. From yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net Tue Oct 6 19:17:00 2009 From: yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net (Yaakov (Cygwin/X)) Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:17:00 -0000 Subject: [1.7] Updated: xorg-util-macros-1.3.0-1 Message-ID: <4ACB9797.9050206@users.sourceforge.net> The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: *** xorg-util-macros-1.3.0-1 This package contains aclocal macros required for building X.Org components from source. This update is a prerequisite to building the latest X11R7.5 packages. 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From yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net Tue Oct 13 05:07:00 2009 From: yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net (Yaakov (Cygwin/X)) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:07:00 -0000 Subject: [1.7] Updated: xorg-server-1.6.5-1 Message-ID: <4AD4094C.5030103@users.sourceforge.net> The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: * xorg-server-1.6.5-1 This package contains XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers. This is likely the last release of the 1.6 series (heard that before?). The following patches has been added in this release: - Fix UT8String and CompoundText clipboard text sharing. - Workaround for SWF/Motif bug in multiwindow mode. - Tidy up system.XWinrc. 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From yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net Fri Oct 16 19:34:00 2009 From: yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net (Yaakov (Cygwin/X)) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:34:00 -0000 Subject: [1.7] New: python-xdg-0.17-1 Message-ID: <4AD8CAA6.1040004@users.sourceforge.net> The following package has been added to the Cygwin 1.7 distribution: * python-xdg-0.17-1 PyXDG is a python library to access freedesktop.org standards. Currently supported are: * Base Directory Specification * Menu Specification * Desktop Entry Specification * Icon Theme Specification * Recent File Specification * Shared-MIME-Database Specification Yaakov Cygwin/X CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO ====================================== If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-xfree-announce mailing list, please use the automated form at: http://cygwin.com/lists.html#subscribe-unsubscribe If this does not work, then look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. 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WHAT'S NEW IN X11R7.5? ====================== * Almost 200 binary packages have been updated, including the latest upstream improvements and bug fixes. * New packages: dmxproto, libdmx1/libdmx-devel, xf86bigfontproto. * Support for IPv6 and other features new to Cygwin 1.7 are now available in packages using them. * The X11 headers have been rearranged, with a lot of shuffling between the *proto packages and their libX*-devel counterparts. This should be transparent to the end user as long as these packages are updated simultaneously. * The technical documentation in xorg-docs and other packages has been built into text, HTML, and PDF formats. FEATURES AND NOTES ================== X11R7.5 includes xorg-server 1.7 with many changes, including: * DMX support has been added. DMX allows one DISPLAY to span multiple screens on one or more computers within a network. It consists of Xdmx, the DMX server (which runs on top of the displaying computers' native XWin/Xming/Xorg/Xquartz servers), several dmx* clients, and the xdmxconfig GUI configuration editor. Because of the additional dependencies of these components, they have been packaged separately as xorg-server-dmx. * Support for the XFree86-BigFont extension has been restored. * In addition to the default gzip-compression of bitmap fonts, support for reading bzip2-compressed fonts has been enabled. * XWin's internal clipboard manager and -multiwindow window manager now default to using the local socket listener, then falling back to the inet and inet6 listeners. This allows them to work even in the case of a difficult firewall configuration, or if an explicit -nolisten argument has been passed. Please note the following limitations in this release: * Despite the update to X Input extension version 2.0 (XI2) which includes Multi-Pointer X (MPX), XWin is still limited to a single keyboard and pointing device due to the Windows APIs it uses. * The Record extension is currently broken and has therefore been temporarily disabled upstream. A fix is expected soon, at which time the extension will be re-enabled. In the meantime, clients using this extension (typically through libXtst) may be missing some functionality. DEPRECATIONS ============ These X extensions, and their related packages, are no longer available: * XEvIE proto: evieext library: libXevie, libxcb-xevie Support for this extension was dropped before xorg-server-1.6. FURTHER DEVELOPMENT =================== Development of Cygwin/X is primarily focused on the XWin server; most other components are extremely stable and work OOTB. Anyone who despaired of touching the old monolithic tree will find things much easier with modular packages. If you want to see XWin stay current and add new features, then WE NEED YOU. Here are some of the projects that could be worked on: * Update the Cygwin/X website. * Continue development of hardware-accelerated AIGLX support. * Implement Extended Window Manager Hints in multiwindow mode. * Implement the Composite extension in multiwindow mode. * Implement Multi-Pointer X. * Implement the XVideo extension. * Implement newest XRandR protocol. * Continue development of WindowsWM extension and xwinwm. FEEDBACK ======== All comments, questions, bug reports, patches, discussion, etc. should take place on the cygwin-xfree@ list. CREDITS ======= Jon Turney for pushing our existing patches upstream and contributing many new patches to this release. Colin Harrison for helping push his Xming patches upstream. Numerous users for their bug reports and suggestions during the 7.4 cycle. And whomever else I may have inadvertently neglected to mention. Enjoy! Yaakov Cygwin/X coordinator CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO ====================================== If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-xfree-announce mailing list, please use the automated form at: http://cygwin.com/lists.html#subscribe-unsubscribe If this does not work, then look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-xfree-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL.