-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: > This seems a reasonable interim step, although presumably there is some kind > of migration path for those applications which only use server-side fonts.
See the relevant commit notes: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=385943 - From that I gather that they don't intend to deprecate or remove the feature, just that the default should be one that works OOTB. > Won't -enable-built-in just transform that FAQ from "my server can't start > because it can't read the fixed font" to "my apps can only use the fixed font > as they can't read any of the others" ? Look at Xming patch 13; it appears to allow using both built-ins and server fonts. This may be the best solution. > I notice that something (presumably in the existing X installation scripts has > done: > > mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts" "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts" > > presumably in an effort to avoid this problem. It might be a good idea to > arrange a similar thing? IIRC that's from a very old monolithic installation and was no longer used even in 6.8. I don't remember what the purpose of that was. > Yeah, this confuses me also. I have worked out the server changes to build > with the extWM support. These mainly relate to enabling the rootless > extension (which isn't used in -rootless mode, confusingly). > > I don't understand what the difference is between using the extWM and using > the internalWM in -multiwindow. Is it just a development convenience in that > you can change, rebuild and restart the WM without having to restart the > server, or does the fact it operates in rootless mode give some extra > functionality? I think the idea was to allow for an external WM with additional features and customizability. The README says that it's based on hackedbox 0.8. AFAIK after the first release (0.0.5), no further development occurred, and the sources don't even build with gcc-3.4. If the xserver support and xwinwm can both be patched to build and work, then I'll be happy to re-add windowswmproto/libWindowsWM and let people play with it. It may be very easy, I only tried quickly to see if it could be packaged for the initial release (which it wasn't). Yaakov Cygwin Ports -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkkPifwACgkQpiWmPGlmQSNmPwCfWsbLkS5TqVeuUt3y7zMpt6qn CA8AoPNE+dpOJhTIijqofa5g8hMzLky5 =GM3E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Cygwin-ports-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cygwin-ports-general
