X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <498B9472.6060003@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:37:54 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090101 Remi/2.0.0.19-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problems with X surfaced recently References: <498B8448 DOT 70709 AT tlinx DOT org> In-Reply-To: <498B8448.70709@tlinx.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Linda Walsh wrote: > > I updated my Cygwin software about 2 weeks ago but didn't try > out the X-server. Cygwin-X questions go to the cygwin-xfree list. > I mostly use the shell tools which seemed fine. But today I noticed > some problems in my X-based utils -- first from Linux-based > computers displaying onto my cygwin-box, and 2nd a slightly > different error when trying run X-utils locally. > > I looked through the recent announcements/postings and saw the I > the ANNOUNCEMENTS about setup and X problems and updated everything > to the latest. > > I'm still having problems. > > The main and most serious problem for me is that remote X > apps and the local X-version of rxvt, open X-display windows > on the local cygwin-box, BUT allow no keyboard input. Did you miss this FAQ? > I also found that Local X-apps, Xterm and Xmined (randomly > chosen x-app) fail with (displayed in local cmd-BASH window): > > Warning: Cannot convert string > "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type > FontStruct > Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font > Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font > Error: Aborting: no font found Or this one? > FYI: If I start the non-X version of rxvt, I get double-wide > spacing of characters -- as if it is having some unicode > spacing problem. > > Attached is output of cygcheck.txt. Thanks for following the problem reporting protocol concerning cygcheck output. :-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/