Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/10/19/13:22:53
I am trying to use cygwin to connect to some machines running Solaris
10 via secure shell x-forwarding and I am getting strange errors which
don't make sense to me. When I run matlab (I get errors in other
programs, just not ones that are quite so specific) the main window
comes up, but for some functions (notably the "create new m-file"
button) I get the error:
"XTEST extension not installed on this server: Error 0"
And the xterminal locks up as well as the matlab program itself.
Closing the xterm shuts down the stalled matlab process as it should,
so thats something. Anyway, I checked the results of xdpyinfo from
cygwin and from the solaris machine and got some results which
confused me.
From cygwin (with the xserver running): xdpyinfo -display :0
$ xdpyinfo.exe -display :0
name of display: :0.0
version number: 11.0
vendor string: The Cygwin/X Project
vendor release number: 60899901
maximum request size: 16777212 bytes
motion buffer size: 256
bitmap unit, bit order, padding: 32, LSBFirst, 32
image byte order: LSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats: 7
supported pixmap formats:
depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
depth 4, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
depth 15, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
depth 32, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
keycode range: minimum 8, maximum 255
focus: window 0x60000e, revert to PointerRoot
number of extensions: 24
BIG-REQUESTS
DAMAGE
DEC-XTRAP
DOUBLE-BUFFER
Extended-Visual-Information
GLX
LBX
MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
RANDR
RECORD
RENDER
SECURITY
SGI-GLX
SHAPE
SYNC
TOG-CUP
X-Resource
XC-APPGROUP
XC-MISC
XFIXES
XFree86-Bigfont
XInputExtension
XKEYBOARD
XTEST
default screen number: 0
number of screens: 1
screen #0:
print screen: no
dimensions: 1920x1200 pixels (650x406 millimeters)
resolution: 75x75 dots per inch
depths (7): 24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32
root window id: 0x3e
depth of root window: 24 planes
number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1
default colormap: 0x20
default number of colormap cells: 256
preallocated pixels: black 0, white 16777215
options: backing-store NO, save-unders NO
largest cursor: 32x32
current input event mask: 0x80004
ButtonPressMask SubstructureNotifyMask
number of visuals: 4
default visual id: 0x22
visual:
visual id: 0x22
class: TrueColor
depth: 24 planes
available colormap entries: 256 per subfield
red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x23
class: TrueColor
depth: 24 planes
available colormap entries: 256 per subfield
red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x24
class: TrueColor
depth: 24 planes
available colormap entries: 256 per subfield
red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x25
class: TrueColor
depth: 24 planes
available colormap entries: 256 per subfield
red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
From the solaris machine:
<snip>
number of extensions: 3
BIG-REQUESTS
LIBX
XC-MISC
</snip>
Everything else is the same that I looked at.
So, from the solaris machine's point of view the XTEST module is not
available even though the cygwin x-server supports it. Is this an
artifact of x-forwarding or is this a problem with how Solaris 10
deals with xwindows?
Thanks for any advice, I have tried to research this, but I am not
familiar with the working s of xwindows so I may have overlooked an
obvious solution.
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