Re: could not open default font 'fixed' - revisited

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Will Senn wrote:

> All,
>
> I have read the thread on this error and while interesting and
> captivating, it doesn't appear to apply to my installation.
>
> I heard cygwin switched to X.org from XFree86 over licensing, etc. I
> decided groovy, my cygwin installation is getting a bit stale anyway.
> So, I deleted my cygwin directory along with all the references in the
> registry and downloaded the realease directory, and burned it to DVD
> (can't believe it won't fit on a CD anymore) yesterday. I ran setup,
> pointed it to my spankin' new cygwin DVD and let 'er rip for a while.
> The installation worked like a charm for the command line stuff. I did
> my usual tweakage - added %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 to cygwin.bat,
> add Cygwin Prompt Here to the registry, associated .sh files with
> cygwin.bat and installed my brand new _fullbackup.sh and _incbackup.sh
> files (thanks Fred Kulack for the -T- steer - embedded spaces are SUCH
> a pain) and added them to the Scheduled Tasks. I ran both jobs once to
> be sure they worked and Voila! Eureka! it worked.
>
> However, I then tried to run startx from the command line to compare
> X.org with the previous XFree86 and bummer, dude...
> ~could not open default font 'fixed'
> ouch, looked in the archives for this list, read the thread and looked
> at the faq entry, but neither possibility appears to apply:
>
> 1. xorg-x11-fnts is missing - nope, it's there.
> 2. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts is invalid, ls lists all the normal
> directories and misc contains a slew of .pcf.gz files.
>
>
> I reran /etc/postinstall/xorg-x11-fnts.sh.done, but it didn't fix
> anything.
>
> here's some of the output of the command (extraneous stuff omitted
> including extra linebreaks).
>
> Please give a helpful suggestion as to next steps...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Will
> - -snip
> $ startx
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 6.7.0.0-9
> Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> XWin was started with the following command line:
> X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard
> (snip)
> (EE) Keyboardlayout "US" (0409) is unknown
> Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)"
> Options = "(null)"
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,
> removing from list!
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'


HTH,
Igor
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Re: could not open default font 'fixed' - revisited

[Will Senn]

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Brian,
Makes sense now, thanks for the clarification. I will be sure to not
reply by changing the subject of another message in future. So, can
you apply your intense powers of cognition to my problem and provide a
useful answer? BTW the message you are referencing or replying to was
not sent to this newsgroup (by me).
Thanks,
Will
Brian Dessent wrote:
| Will Senn wrote:
|
|> 1. I started a new thread, hence the - revisited suffix. 2. I
|> didn't reply to a message
|
|
| Your headers speak otherwise:
|
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|
| Your so-called new message shows up in my mail program as a reply
| to "Re: `touch' created wrong file without giving error" by Peter
| J. Acklam, which is a completely unrelated thread.  It will also
| appear in the web archives in this broken manner.  Anyone searching
| those archives for help in the future will likely be confused as to
| what in the world your message regarding upgrading your X11 server
| has to do with touch not being able to create filenames with
| trailing spaces.
|
| Hitting reply and changing the subject does *NOT* create a new
| thread!
|
| Brian
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Re: could not open default font 'fixed' - revisited

[Brian Dessent]

Will Senn wrote:

> 1. I started a new thread, hence the - revisited suffix.
> 2. I didn't reply to a message

Your headers speak otherwise:

> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Your so-called new message shows up in my mail program as a reply to
"Re: `touch' created wrong file without giving error" by Peter J.
Acklam, which is a completely unrelated thread.  It will also appear in
the web archives in this broken manner.  Anyone searching those archives
for help in the future will likely be confused as to what in the world
your message regarding upgrading your X11 server has to do with touch
not being able to create filenames with trailing spaces.

Hitting reply and changing the subject does *NOT* create a new thread!

Brian

Re: Fw: 1.5.10: startx hangs intermittently

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:21:02PM -0400, Jerry Moody wrote:
> >Your email server rejects mail >5 bytes (and the required
> >cygcheck.out file is 56506 bytes).  So I zip'd it up, but your email
> >server also rejects any mail with an executable (which I guess a zip
> >file is considered).  So, I'm stuck and can't send you the required
> >information, unless you have an alternative.
>
> I've upped the limit to 100K but, for your future edification, the
> server does not reject gzipped files, i.e.
>
>   gzip cygcheck.out

presumably you mean as an attachment.

I once had someone (trying to be helpful) mail me an 8Mb core file
(inline, not as an attachment).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: Fw: 1.5.10: startx hangs intermittently

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:21:02PM -0400, Jerry Moody wrote:
>Your email server rejects mail >5 bytes (and the required
>cygcheck.out file is 56506 bytes).  So I zip'd it up, but your email
>server also rejects any mail with an executable (which I guess a zip
>file is considered).  So, I'm stuck and can't send you the required
>information, unless you have an alternative.

I've upped the limit to 100K but, for your future edification, the
server does not reject gzipped files, i.e.

  gzip cygcheck.out

ssh, xwindows.

[Jonathan Gemmell]

Hello,
Thanks in advance for your help!
I am trying to ssh into another computer with the -X option from a windows 
machine running cygqin.

I am following this procedure
export DISPLAY="ipaddress"
x&
openbox.exe &
ssh -X "computer"
However, when I run the x& line, I run into trouble.  I get the fram of the 
window, but nothing else, and I get the following errors...

$ x&
[1] 3772
Jonathan F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
$ Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.7.0.0-9
Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
XWin was started with the following command line:
x
winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
(II) XF86Config is not supported
(II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0007
winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per 
pixel
winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff ff00 00ff
MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of 
shar
$
(--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
(--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "0409" (0409)
(EE) Keyboardlayout "US" (0409) is unknown
Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options = 
"(null
)"
l
bash: l: command not found
[1]+  Donex

Thanks again for your help!
Jon Gemmell
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Re: XWin listens on too many TCP

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:06:53AM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Ted Bennett wrote:
>>I read your post concerning XWin listens on too many TCP ports and
>>killing existing connections.  You were corresponding with Khoa Nguyen.
>>Was there any fix for his problem?  I am having the same symptoms.
>
>You are using Zonealarm too?

Maybe I need an autoresponder to this thread.

AFAIK, this is cygwin working as normal, i.e., it is not a bug.

The code in question is in select.cc.  If anyone wants to give a look
and suggest alternate implementations, they are welcome to send patches
to cygwin-patches.

cgf

Re: Cut&Paste in xterm

[Cary Jamison]

"Jason Dufair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I think I've finally gotten to the bottom of the problem.  I have
> discovered that highlighting in Rxvt does copy on to the Windows
> clipboard after all, but that pasting by clicking the middle mouse
> button does not work.  It turns out that I have my middle button set to
> double-click.  When I set my middle mouse button to "AutoScroll
> (default)", it pastes as expected.
> 
> Is there any way for Cygwin/X to paste with the middle button in X 
windows,
> regardless of what the driver setting is for the middle button?  Would
> this even be desirable?


You are essentially making your 3 button mouse a 2 button mouse then.  In 
this scenario you click both buttons at once to get the affect of the 
third button.  You may need to set -emulate3buttons.

> >> "Ariel Burbaickij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Dear all,
> >> > happy my question about possibilty to start windows applications
> >> > direclty has provoked rather vivid discusion. Now for a change
> >> > extremly dumb question: Cut & paste inside xterm of cygwin X-server
> >> > does not work neither traditional highlight and point to where you 
want
> >> > to have it method, not ctrl-c/ctrl-v method. So, what is the trick?
> >> >
> >> > With Best Regards
> >> > Ariel Burbaickij
> >> >
> >> > -- 
> >> > "Sie haben neue Mails!" - Die GMX Toolbar informiert Sie beim 
Surfen!
> >> > Jetzt aktivieren unter http://www.gmx.net/info

My guess on the OP's problem - sounds like a misunderstanding of how 
copy/paste works, since ctrl-c/ctrl-v is not used for copy/paste in xterm. 
 Have you tried pasting with the middle mouse button?  If that solves your 
problem, realize that the various X applications may have their own 
methods and you need to discover how to do it properly for each.

Cary
 

Re: Cut&Paste in xterm

[Jason Dufair]

I think I've finally gotten to the bottom of the problem.  I have
discovered that highlighting in Rxvt does copy on to the Windows
clipboard after all, but that pasting by clicking the middle mouse
button does not work.  It turns out that I have my middle button set to
double-click.  When I set my middle mouse button to "AutoScroll
(default)", it pastes as expected.

Is there any way for Cygwin/X to paste with the middle button in X windows,
regardless of what the driver setting is for the middle button?  Would
this even be desirable?

Tom Sobczynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> For a data point, I invoke the Cygwin X.org server with -multiwindow and
> -clipboard, and I can cut and paste between Windows and Gnome
> applications in both directions.
>
> To speculate wildly about your troubles with Rxvt, I wonder if there are
> problems mapping the multiple X selections to the single Windows
> clipboard.  Can you cut and paste with gnome-terminal?  Have you tried
> restarting the Windows ClipBook service?
>
> On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 10:54, Jason Dufair wrote:
>> I've been meaning to post this same question for weeks.  I Googled quite
>> extensively and found nothing.  My question regards Rxvt in X mode, but
>> I suspect it's the same issue.  I'm running with the following switches:
>> 
>> -multiwindow -clipboard -multiplemonitors -nounixkill
>> 
>> Is anyone successfully cutting/pasting with -multiwindow?
>> 
>> "Ariel Burbaickij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 
>> > Dear all,
>> > happy my question about possibilty to start windows applications
>> > direclty has provoked rather vivid discusion. Now for a change
>> > extremly dumb question: Cut & paste inside xterm of cygwin X-server
>> > does not work neither traditional highlight and point to where you want
>> > to have it method, not ctrl-c/ctrl-v method. So, what is the trick?
>> >
>> > With Best Regards
>> > Ariel Burbaickij
>> >
>> > -- 
>> > "Sie haben neue Mails!" - Die GMX Toolbar informiert Sie beim Surfen!
>> > Jetzt aktivieren unter http://www.gmx.net/info

-- 
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http://www.dufair.org/
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota
monax materiam possit materiari?
(How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?)

Re: could not open default font 'fixed' - revisited

[Igor Pechtchanski]

First, please start a new thread instead of replying to a message from an
unrelated thread -- otherwise it screws up the threading.  Second, you've
sent this to the wrong list -- redirecting this to cygwin-xfree.
Igor

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Will Senn wrote:

> All,
>
> I have read the thread on this error and while interesting and
> captivating, it doesn't appear to apply to my installation.
>
> I heard cygwin switched to X.org from XFree86 over licensing, etc. I
> decided groovy, my cygwin installation is getting a bit stale anyway.
> So, I deleted my cygwin directory along with all the references in the
> registry and downloaded the realease directory, and burned it to DVD
> (can't believe it won't fit on a CD anymore) yesterday. I ran setup,
> pointed it to my spankin' new cygwin DVD and let 'er rip for a while.
> The installation worked like a charm for the command line stuff. I did
> my usual tweakage - added %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 to cygwin.bat,
> add Cygwin Prompt Here to the registry, associated .sh files with
> cygwin.bat and installed my brand new _fullbackup.sh and _incbackup.sh
> files (thanks Fred Kulack for the -T- steer - embedded spaces are SUCH
> a pain) and added them to the Scheduled Tasks. I ran both jobs once to
> be sure they worked and Voila! Eureka! it worked.
>
> However, I then tried to run startx from the command line to compare
> X.org with the previous XFree86 and bummer, dude...
> ~could not open default font 'fixed'
> ouch, looked in the archives for this list, read the thread and looked
> at the faq entry, but neither possibility appears to apply:
>
> 1. xorg-x11-fnts is missing - nope, it's there.
> 2. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts is invalid, ls lists all the normal
> directories and misc contains a slew of .pcf.gz files.
>
>
> I reran /etc/postinstall/xorg-x11-fnts.sh.done, but it didn't fix
> anything.
>
> here's some of the output of the command (extraneous stuff omitted
> including extra linebreaks).
>
> Please give a helpful suggestion as to next steps...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Will
> - -snip
> $ startx
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 6.7.0.0-9
> Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> XWin was started with the following command line:
> X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard
> (snip)
> (EE) Keyboardlayout "US" (0409) is unknown
> Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)"
> Options = "(null)"
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,
> removing from list!
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'

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to the bathroom is a major career booster."  -- Patrick Naughton

Re: Cut&Paste in xterm

[Tom Sobczynski]

For a data point, I invoke the Cygwin X.org server with -multiwindow and
-clipboard, and I can cut and paste between Windows and Gnome
applications in both directions.

To speculate wildly about your troubles with Rxvt, I wonder if there are
problems mapping the multiple X selections to the single Windows
clipboard.  Can you cut and paste with gnome-terminal?  Have you tried
restarting the Windows ClipBook service?

On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 10:54, Jason Dufair wrote:
> I've been meaning to post this same question for weeks.  I Googled quite
> extensively and found nothing.  My question regards Rxvt in X mode, but
> I suspect it's the same issue.  I'm running with the following switches:
> 
> -multiwindow -clipboard -multiplemonitors -nounixkill
> 
> Is anyone successfully cutting/pasting with -multiwindow?
> 
> "Ariel Burbaickij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Dear all,
> > happy my question about possibilty to start windows applications
> > direclty has provoked rather vivid discusion. Now for a change
> > extremly dumb question: Cut & paste inside xterm of cygwin X-server
> > does not work neither traditional highlight and point to where you want
> > to have it method, not ctrl-c/ctrl-v method. So, what is the trick?
> >
> > With Best Regards
> > Ariel Burbaickij
> >
> > -- 
> > "Sie haben neue Mails!" - Die GMX Toolbar informiert Sie beim Surfen!
> > Jetzt aktivieren unter http://www.gmx.net/info

Re: Fw: 1.5.10: startx hangs intermittently

[Jesper Hansen]

Jerry Moody wrote:
I updated to cygwin 1.5.10-3 from 1.5.7 on Windows XP.  startx now hangs
intermittently on startup.  Messages sent to the console at startx
initialization are contained in the attached file startx-hang.txt.
Console messages when startx works are attached as startx-works.txt.
Reports from cygcheck -c on both the 1.5.7 and 1.5.10 are also included as
cygcheck.157 and cygcheck.1510 respectively.  Along with cygcheck.out of
course.
I have experienced the same problem with X on WinXP, almost every time I 
try to start XWin -multiwindow, XWin will hang after outputting: 
"winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello".

After some testing I have found out it only happends when I use 
-multiwindow and have enabled DOS (CR/LF) mode with the Cygwin installer.

--
Jesper Hansen

Fw: 1.5.10: startx hangs intermittently

[Jerry Moody]

Your email server rejects mail >5 bytes (and the required cygcheck.out
file is 56506 bytes).  So I zip'd it up, but your email server also rejects
any mail with an executable (which I guess a zip file is considered).  So,
I'm stuck and can't send you the required information, unless you have an
alternative.

Jerry  <


Jerry Moody
8-295-4152 /  (845)435-4152
Team Leader
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Function Verification Test
eServer IBM Grid Toolbox
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I updated to cygwin 1.5.10-3 from 1.5.7 on Windows XP.  startx now hangs
intermittently on startup.  Messages sent to the console at startx
initialization are contained in the attached file startx-hang.txt.
Console messages when startx works are attached as startx-works.txt.
Reports from cygcheck -c on both the 1.5.7 and 1.5.10 are also included as
cygcheck.157 and cygcheck.1510 respectively.  Along with cygcheck.out of
course.

When startx hangs, which is more often than it starts, the Cygwin/X Server
0:0 icon appears in the Windows Notification area, but mouse clicks (right
and left) do nothing.  Repeated kill via c and restart will
eventually get it to start, without ever having to close cygwin.

Can you help?

[attachment "startx.zip" deleted by Jerry Moody/Poughkeepsie/IBM]
Jerry  <


Jerry Moody
8-295-4152 /  (845)435-4152
Team Leader
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Function Verification Test
eServer IBM Grid Toolbox

Re: Cut&Paste in xterm

[Jason Dufair]

I've been meaning to post this same question for weeks.  I Googled quite
extensively and found nothing.  My question regards Rxvt in X mode, but
I suspect it's the same issue.  I'm running with the following switches:

-multiwindow -clipboard -multiplemonitors -nounixkill

Is anyone successfully cutting/pasting with -multiwindow?

"Ariel Burbaickij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Dear all,
> happy my question about possibilty to start windows applications
> direclty has provoked rather vivid discusion. Now for a change
> extremly dumb question: Cut & paste inside xterm of cygwin X-server
> does not work neither traditional highlight and point to where you want
> to have it method, not ctrl-c/ctrl-v method. So, what is the trick?
>
> With Best Regards
> Ariel Burbaickij
>
> -- 
> "Sie haben neue Mails!" - Die GMX Toolbar informiert Sie beim Surfen!
> Jetzt aktivieren unter http://www.gmx.net/info

-- 
Jason Dufair - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.dufair.org/
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench. A long plastic
hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.
There's also a negative side."
-- Hunter S. Thompson

RE: Tracking Down Disappearing Cursors

[Sterling Baker]

Alexander Gottwald wrote:
[snip]
>>I've placed a binary at http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/XWin.exe.bz2
>>Can you please test it with the Terminal Service?

I had a similar issue with disappearing cursor though maybe different way of
getting there (still very annoying).  I found a way to repeat it regularly.
I have a dual head setup and start with; 

'start /B XWin'

which opens a separate DOS window.  With the DOS window on one monitor, the
XWin window on the other.  If I focused on the DOS window, then the XWin,
the cursor would disappear once the XWin became selected.  With the new
binary this doesn't happen.

Thanks

Sterling

Re: XWin listens on too many TCP

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Ted Bennett wrote:

> I read your post concerning XWin listens on too many TCP ports and killing
> existing connections. You were corresponding with Khoa Nguyen.
> Was there any fix for his problem? I am having the same symptoms.

You are using Zonealarm too?

bye
ago
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