Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-Id: <37490CDF.53C2613C@kiwi.iamp.tohoku.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 09:25:03 +0000 From: Samy Alex ZAIMI Reply-To: zaimi AT kiwi DOT iamp DOT tohoku DOT ac DOT jp Organization: Institute for Advanced Materials Processing - Tohoku University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [fr] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: fr,en,ja Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com" Subject: Window Managers for X11 (fwm2, mwm, twm) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I have cygwin B20.1 on a W95B laptop computer, and I am using the free X server from MicroImages. I usually lauch 'xs.exe' from the desktop (by clicking on an appropriate icon), then from a bash shell I use one of the following window managers (by the way, are there others around ?) : 1. mwm & 2. fvwm2 & 3. twm & Well, I have problems with each of them. When I use the first one, I have troubles at start up : helios:~$ mwm & [1] 1086 helios:~$ Warning: Cannot convert string "variable" to type FontStruct Cannot find configuration file. Using builtin defaults. at line 0 Xlib: extension "SHAPE" missing on display "127.0.0.1:0.0". Xlib: extension "SHAPE" missing on display "127.0.0.1:0.0". Xlib: extension "SHAPE" missing on display "127.0.0.1:0.0". Xlib: extension "SHAPE" missing on display "127.0.0.1:0.0". So, what is going on ? Beside, each time I want to start an application, I have : helios:~$ 0 0 [main] D:\USR\CYGNUS\BIN\BASH.EXE 1088 handle_exceptions : Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION 0 1166 [main] BASH 1088 handle_exceptions: Dumping stack trace to BASH.EXE.core Xlib: extension "SHAPE" missing on display "127.0.0.1:0.0". Xlib: extension "SHAPE" missing on display "127.0.0.1:0.0". Xlib: extension "SHAPE" missing on display "127.0.0.1:0.0". with a BASH.EXE.core on my starting directoty. When I try the second, I have : helios:~$ [GetFontOrFixed]: WARNING -- can't get font -adobe-times-bold-r-*-*-14 -*-*-*-*-*-*-*, trying 'fixed' I suspect a font installation problem. How to solve that ? When I try the third one, I have no problem, except with 'xterm' : helios:~$ xterm & [2] 1107 " to type FontStructannot convert string "nil2 Is it really a problem ? I don't know. Could anyone send me suggestions, share experience, give me some hints and so on. The archive list contains few things about these topics, really few things... Some people mentionned the fact that this could be related to the X server itself, and similar problems disappeared when they switched to a "shareware" server from starnet. Any confirmation ? Thanks in advance. Dr.-Ing. Samy Alex ZAIMI Tohoku University - Sendai (Japan) -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com