Harold, thanks for your immediate help. I did as you suggested and it worked out fine for me:
XWin 4.3.0-29 is now running AND there is no problem with Alt-Gr anymore. Thanks to you and all the people providing the great cygwin stuff Happy New Year Christoph > Run 'mount' in a Cygwin bash shell. You should see something that includes a > line > like the following: > C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmode) > If you see "type system" in that line, then run the following in your Cygwin > bash > shell: > umount /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts > Else, run the following > umount -u /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts > The problem is that your mount-point for your fonts directory points to a dead or > invalid directory and needs to be removed. > You know need to re-run Cygwin's setup.exe and make sure that the XFree86-fenc and > XFree86-fnts packages are installed or re-installed. > Harold Christoph Leser wrote: >> thanks for pointing me to /tmp/XWin.log >> This shows, that the font directory is not properly installed. >> When I try to reinstall, the installer hangs when trying to create the sub >> >> drirectories. ( As a matter of fact I cannot create /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts >> in >> bash,, gives 'mkdir: cannot create directory 'fonts': No such file or >>directory' ) >> I have no idea what has happened, maybe something wrong with xp? >> Thanks >> Christoph
