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This file currently contains the Cygwin/X specific release notes from 6.7.0 and a first collection of what will make up the release notes for the next release
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Cygwin/X Release Notes
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Release X11R6.7
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===============
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Cygwin/X has continued its rapid pace of development that it has sustained
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since Spring 2001 and this release shows it, we now have: a stable and fast
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multi-window mode, seamless clipboard integration, a configurable tray menu
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icon, popups on error messages pointing users to the log file and our mailing
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list, the beginnings of indirect 3D acceleration for OpenGL applications,
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improved non-US keyboard and clipboard support, and only a handful of bugs
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that continue to be reported.
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Between the XFree86 4.3.0 release and the X.Org X11R6.7 release the Cyg-
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win/XFree86 project broke away from The XFree86 Project, Inc. due to a lack
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of support from the XFree86 project. As such, the Cygwin/XFree86 project was
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renamed to the Cygwin/X project and the upstream source code tree that Cyg-
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win/X pulls from and pushes to is now the tree managed by the X.Org Founda-
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tion. The Cygwin/X project has seen a rush of development and interest in
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the project since the split; one metric showing this is that the number of
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CVS committers we have has gone from zero to six.
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The most outstanding features of this release are
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o Major multi-window mode improvements. (Takuma Murakami, Earle F.
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Philhower III)
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o Initial work of accelerated OpenGL using the windows OpenGL drivers.
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(Alexander Gottwald)
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o Massive rework of clipboard integration with windows. (Harold L Hunt II,
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Kensuke Matsuzaki)
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o Improved Japanese clipboard and keyboard support. (Kensuke Matsuzaki,
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Takuma Murakami, Alexander Gottwald)
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o Customizable tray menu icon allowing shortcuts to start programs,
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etc.(Earle F. Philhower III)
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o New icons. (Jehan Bing, Michael Bax, Benjamin Rienfenstahl)
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o Fix some multi-monitor problems.(Takuma Murakami)
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o Fix repeated key strokes. (Ivan Pascal)
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o Automatic keyboard layouts for the most frequently used keyboard lay-
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outs. (Alexander Gottwald)
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o Built in SHM support with detection of the SHM engine (cygserver).
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(Ralf Habacker, Harold L Hunt II)
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o Merged in work on the NativeGDI engine. (Alan Hourihane)
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OpenGL with Cygwin/X
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====================
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Cygwin/X has supported GLX only with software rendering provided by the Mesa
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library. Starting with X11R6.7 we add support for hardware accelerated OpenGL.
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This support is still under development and still has some bigger problems.
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To provide both versions (the stable software rendering and the new hardware
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accelerated) we ship to binaries. XWin.exe contains the software rendering
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and XWin_GL.exe uses the hardware acceleration provided by the windows drivers.
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The known problems with hardware accelerated OpenGL are:
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o Only multiwindow mode is useful. In the other modes the OpenGL output
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does not align with the X11 windows.
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o Using two programs which require different visuals will fail. For example
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glxgears and glxinfo will not work without restarting XWin_GL.exe.
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o OpenGL extensions and functions from OpenGL 1.2 and later should work
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but are not completely tested.
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o The standard Windows OpenGL driver will produce no output. Use the one
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from your video adapter vendor.
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If you notice problems with some programs please send a message with the
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logfile /tmp/XWin.log and a short error description to <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
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The hardware accelerated OpenGL was tested using:
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o glxgears
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o glxinfo
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o blender
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o tuxkart
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o GLUT demos (some did fail)
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o tuxracer (currently not working)
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Release X11R6.8
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Having reached a quite mature state in release X11R6.7 the development
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has slowed down a little bit. Some of the former active developers have
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retired or cut their work for the Cygwin/X project due to conflicts with
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job, study and family.
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The X11R6.8 release now includes major improvements from the xserver project.
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This includes the XFixes, the Damage and XEVIE extension which is a major
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step towards allowing Cygwin/X to have real transparency.
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OpenGL with Cygwin/X
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====================
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The OpenGL support has lost some of it's limitations from the last release
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and should be much more stable. But due to missing wide spread testing in
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the community it is still available in a separate program. XWin still uses
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the old software OpenGL which is known to be stable.
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The known problems with hardware accelerated OpenGL are:
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o Only multiwindow mode is useful. In the other modes the OpenGL output
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does not align with the X11 windows.
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o OpenGL extensions and functions from OpenGL 1.2 and later should work
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but are not completely tested.
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o The standard Windows OpenGL driver will produce no output. Use the one
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from your video adapter vendor.
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If you notice problems with some programs please send a message with the
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logfile /tmp/XWin.log and a short error description to <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
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The hardware accelerated OpenGL was tested using:
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o glxgears
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o glxinfo
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o blender
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o tuxkart
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o GLUT demos (some did fail)
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