Re: WORKAROUND: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

2009-02-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
ThinkDifferently wrote: My solution was, at the very least, to re-run setup.exe and to install the package font-misc-misc. Once I did that, XWin stopped hanging and xterm and xclock ran without a hitch. I found this nugget of information buried deep in the

Re: conflicting header files VendorSP.h and VendorP.h

2009-02-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
Siegmar Gross wrote: ... if mpic++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I../../src -I/usr/X11R6/include -O -MT xmpi_misc.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/xmpi_misc.Tpo \ -c -o xmpi_misc.o `test -f 'xmpi_misc.cc' || echo './'`xmpi_misc.cc; \ then mv -f .deps/xmpi_misc.Tpo

Re: X / gtk-x11 / flicker and other problems [+PATCH]

2009-02-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
John Emmas wrote: - Original Message - From: Jon TURNEY Subject: Re: X / gtk-x11 / flicker and other problems btw, I use -multiwindow mode all the time, but I've obviously trained myself not to see any of these artefacts lol - fair point..! But I must admit, having seen how the

Re: rgb.txt not honored in X7?

2009-02-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
Mike Ayers wrote all on one line: From where? I believe this should be ~/.Xdefaults, but the nature of cygwin can make ~ an indefinite place for startup files. I set %HOME%, which becomes $HOME to what will be ~, but if I put XTerm*toolbar: false in $HOME/.Xdefaults I still have toolbars

Addition to FAQ 6.1 - X11 forwarding and xauth

2009-02-12 Thread Wheeler, Frederick W (GE, Research)
I have an additional answer to Cygwin/X FAQ 6.1, X11Forwarding does not work with OpenSSH under Cygwin --- begin A6: If the *remote* machine is a Windows machine using Cygwin OpenSSH, make sure the Cygwin xauth package is installed on the *remote* machine. The OpenSSH server

Font problem with remote emacs session

2009-02-12 Thread Joe Java
I Have not used X in a while ( a few months). I did a complete update to the latest Cygwin packages. When I logged onto the school system , I tried to open an emacs window and got the following: Warning: Cannot convert string -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct

Re: Font problem with remote emacs session

2009-02-12 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Joe Java wrote: I Have not used X in a while ( a few months). I did a complete update to the latest Cygwin packages. When I logged onto the school system , I tried to open an emacs window and got the following: Warning: Cannot convert

Re: I Cannot Start the X Server

2009-02-12 Thread Frédéric Bron
I recently upgraded and ran into this problem as well. I watched the XWin.exe process using ProcMon from sysinternals.com and it doesn't look like a problem of directory / file / user permissions as the FAQ would suggest. From ProcMon it looks like /tmp/.tX0-lock is being deleted before it