From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Eclipse running on debian with remote display to cygwin X11 starts all squashed to a point
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 19:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32e5deb7-ea62-3681-05f2-742ac2c636b5@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86bmfyie44.fsf@dod.no>
On 2018-03-08 12:03, Steinar Bang wrote:
>>>>>> Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>:
>
>> It might also be worth trying adding the '-extension RANDR' option to
>> the X server, to disable RANDR.
>
> Thanks! I will try this, before I try the new version.
>
> [snip!]
>> Well, with those details, I was able to reproduce some weird behaviour
>> (not working menus, oddly placed windows), although not exactly what
>> you see.
>
>> You didn't mention if any warnings are written by eclipse to the terminal?
>
> There's only one message but it doesn't look relevant to this:
> sb@lorenzo:~$ ~/eclipse/java-oxygen/eclipse/eclipse
> org.eclipse.m2e.logback.configuration: The org.eclipse.m2e.logback.configuration bundle was activated before the state location was initialized. Will retry after the state location is initialized.
>
> (emacs outputs a heap of GTk messages, though. But it comes up normally,
> so that probably isn't relevant)
>
>> That seems to be related to certain versions of GTK+ getting confused
>> by the RANDR data provided by XWin and ending up believing the display
>> is 0x0 pixels in size.
>
>> I've built a snapshot with some potential fixes. Perhaps you could try
>> that and see if it improves things for you?
>
>> ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/x86_64/XWin.20180308-git-3ca71c7f563c3e91.exe.bz2
>
> Ok I will try this and see how it works out. I will report back both
> the results of both this version and the "-extension RANDR".
Have you tried explicitly specifying -geometry compatible with the target
display, to see if that works?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-08 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-06 20:13 Steinar Bang
2018-03-07 14:40 ` Jon Turney
2018-03-07 18:00 ` Steinar Bang
2018-03-08 16:34 ` Jon Turney
2018-03-08 19:15 ` Steinar Bang
2018-03-08 19:48 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2018-03-08 20:25 ` Steinar Bang
2018-03-08 20:16 ` Steinar Bang
2018-03-08 20:22 ` Steinar Bang
2018-03-09 18:03 ` Jon Turney
2018-03-09 20:04 ` Steinar Bang
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