Hi
I tried to find some information about the BigFont extension. This is
from the X man page:
XF86BIGFONT_DISABLE
Setting this variable to a non-empty value disables the
XFree86-Bigfont extension. This extension is a mechanism to
reduce the memory consumption of big fonts by use of shared mem-
ory.
So I tried the following. I enabled the cygserver service again and set
XF86BIGFONT_DISABLE=1 in my environment before starting up XWin. And
voila, xfontsel and uxterm are working properly. So there's definitely a
problem with the shared memory support of cygserver related to the
BigFont extension.
BTW I see the problem also with my mule enabled XEmacs when opening
mails under Gnus with Japanese characters. XEmacs crashes happily, but
not when using XF86BIGFONT_DISABLE or when disabling cygserver.
Ciao
Volker
