Re: Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts?

2012-05-21 Thread Ronald Fischer
On Sun, May 20, 2012, at 14:19, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-05-20 05:07, Ronald Fischer wrote: The question remains, why nedit looks at *those* fonts. I'm perfectly happy to specify in the preferences of nedit only those fonts which are actually installed with Xming. However, nedit

Re: Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts?

2012-05-21 Thread Ronald Fischer
On Sun, May 20, 2012, at 14:19, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-05-20 05:07, Ronald Fischer wrote: Fonts are also required for rendering the interface (menus and dialog boxes). Update: Yaakov, I just found out that you were right in your assumption that there *is* at least one part

Re: Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts?

2012-05-20 Thread Ronald Fischer
On Sat, May 19, 2012, at 23:18, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-05-19 05:20, Ronald Fischer wrote: In fact, it is. nedit, like other old Motif (and Xaw) applications, depends on server-side fonts. (Modern GUI toolkits, such as GTK+ and Qt, use client-side fonts via fontconfig or a wrapper

Re: Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts?

2012-05-19 Thread Ronald Fischer
On Fri, May 18, 2012, at 13:37, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-05-18 07:42, Ronald Fischer wrote: I'm using Xming as X server. This is not a support forum for Xming. But for the cygwin X applications. I think nedit must have a reason to look for these fonts which I have never specified

Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts?

2012-05-18 Thread Ronald Fischer
(.TTF, .FON) and X font names. I don't know if or to what extend this could help me with the nedit problem; in any case, this list also doesn't contain helvetica or courier. Ronald -- Ronald Fischer rona...@eml.cc + If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, + and the bus is interrupted

Re: ssh -X : connect /tmp/.X11-unix/X0: No such file or directory

2012-04-23 Thread Ronald Fischer
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012, at 19:53, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 20/04/2012 11:43, Ronald Fischer wrote: My setup so far (which is working well), was to use Xming as X-Server and putty for logging into our Solaris hosts via ssh. Since I have Cygwin installed, I thought I could use its ssh equally well

ssh -X : connect /tmp/.X11-unix/X0: No such file or directory

2012-04-20 Thread Ronald Fischer
Cygwin. BTW, I also tried to use -Y instead of -X in my ssh invocation, but with no effect. Ronald -- Ronald Fischer rona...@eml.cc + If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, + and the bus is interrupted and the interrupt's not caught, + then the socket packet pocket has an error

link broken

2009-03-26 Thread Ronald Fischer
The FAQ link on http://x.cygwin.com/, pointing to http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/, always gives error 504 (gateway timeout). -- Ronald Fischer rona...@eml.cc + If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, + and the bus is interrupted and the interrupt's not caught, + then the socket packet

startxwin.bat causes unnecessary configuration issue

2009-03-26 Thread Ronald Fischer
is: if defined CYGWIN_ROOT goto :OK set CYGWIN_ROOT=%~dp0\.. :OK Ronald -- Ronald Fischer rona...@eml.cc + If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, + and the bus is interrupted and the interrupt's not caught, + then the socket packet pocket has an error to report. + (cited

RE: RE: RE: RE: Two issues with Xwin

2007-08-29 Thread Ronald Fischer
when you are typing fast? And I still would find it worth a try - despite what has been suggested earlier in this thread - to see whether the same behaviour exists with bash (or other applications reading keystrokes). Ronald -- Ronald Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +49-89-452133-162

RE: RE: RE: Two issues with Xwin

2007-08-28 Thread Ronald Fischer
* Ronald Fischer (Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:57:34 +0200) This suggest that different dot-files are sourced in the two cases. When I run bash (in my case) either from cmd or started by XWin, I also have differences in which dot-files are sourced, so this is the first place you might want to look

RE: Two issues with Xwin

2007-08-27 Thread Ronald Fischer
* using a terminal and a shell I often have to enter Enter or Tab twice to get the desired effect. How come? Which effect do you desire? (Filename completion, command completion, ...)? Which shell? How did you configure it? (i.e. if you are talking about readline functionality, what's the

Windows fonts usage?

2007-08-27 Thread Ronald Fischer
Is there a way to use/convert the fonts which come with Windows, for usage with Cygwin/X, when running XWin.exe in Multiwindow mode? Ronald -- Ronald Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +49-89-452133-162 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http

RE: shell properties

2007-08-16 Thread Ronald Fischer
to copy it instead of creating a link, but this is a matter of taste), and modified it. There is already one xterm to be started in startxwin.bat, so you can add/modify yours according to your taste. Ronald -- Ronald Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +49-89-452133-162 -- Unsubscribe info: http

oclock color bug?

2007-08-10 Thread Ronald Fischer
I'm using XWin -multiwindow to run Cygwin/X When I start the oclock with: oclock -minute blue -hour black -bd green -transparent -jewel red -geometry 322x322+500+400 I get a clock with green border, but minute hand, hour hand and jewel all being in blue. Ronald -- Ronald Fischer [EMAIL