Hi I just discovered why uxterm and xfontsel are crashing on my system. It's happening when running cygserver so X can detect shared memory support. When disabling cygserver I see the following message in XWin.log:
MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel but then uxterm and xfontsel are running fine. So it looks like the XFree86-Bigfont extension somehow doesn't work properly with cygserver. Here my relevant environment. cygwin 1.5.9-1 libXft 2.1.6-1 libXft-devel 2.1.6-1 libXft1 1.0.0-1 libXft2 2.1.6-1 XFree86-base 4.3.0-9 XFree86-bin 4.3.0-19 XFree86-bin-icons 4.3.0-7 XFree86-doc 4.3.0-1 XFree86-etc 4.3.0-11 XFree86-f100 4.3.0-1 XFree86-fcyr 4.3.0-1 XFree86-fenc 4.3.0-1 XFree86-fnts 4.3.0-1 XFree86-fscl 4.3.0-1 XFree86-fsrv 4.3.0-8 XFree86-html 4.3.0-8 XFree86-jdoc 4.3.0-1 XFree86-lib 4.3.0-2 XFree86-lib-compat 4.3.0-2 XFree86-man 4.3.0-8 XFree86-nest 4.3.0-7 XFree86-prog 4.3.0-19 XFree86-prt 4.3.0-5 XFree86-ps 4.3.0-1 XFree86-startup-scripts 4.2.0-5 XFree86-vfb 4.3.0-7 XFree86-xserv 4.3.0-60 XFree86-xwinclip 4.3.0-2 xterm 185-3 Can anbody confirm my observation ? Ciao Volker
