I know I can always tell which packages are to be updated, what if I do not what to?
I mean I am not installing a beta distribution, so I assume that the things are enough tested before they are posted in a repository. Obviously it can happen that something is buggy or does not work for one or another reason the way it should, but for sure this is to be seen as a bug and not as stupidity of the people who install the update. And at the end of the day what should people do keep the "old" packages all life long? sometimes I will be "forced" to trust you and apply the update anyway, and the X.org major update is now "old" (November 2008). If something needs manual "help" before the update procedure can be performed (which should never happen if the update procedure is good enough), a warning message should pop up. Even if I accept (which I do not really) that I was not enough careful in applying the update what should I do now: kill myself? reinstall the whole system or are you willing to give an hint how to restore the functionality? If there is no point in attaching a screen shot and you are soo good in understanding what I mean, you would be soo good even in answering right away solving the problem instead replying with an useless polemic mail, right? p.s. I did googled and I did look in the previous threads and I did not find any answer to my question, that's why am am asking. Externe Mail : cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com 01.04.2009 15:29 Gesendet von: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com Bitte antworten an cygwin-xfree An: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com> Kopie: Thema: RE: XWin wrong fonts after update catia.lava...@xxxxxxx.xxx wrote: > I've been using since ages cygwin and XWin (XWin :0 -clipboard > -multiwindow) on a Win XP Prof 32bit and I had no problems at all. Last > update of cygwin I did was some month ago (I do not know exactly when). > Yesterday afternoon I did again an update (like I always did without > looking at he home page of cygwin) and I have realized that the X.org > was updated. You can always tell which packages are going to be updated by clicking the View button in setup.exe until the label next to it reads "Partial". In fact, I wouldn't recommend updating without first checking that list. You should then read the announcements for the packages about to be updated so that you're not surprised by any changes. The X update was a VERY large one and came with quite a detailed announcement. > The problem is since then a graphical application which is ssh tunneled > from a remote linux machine, which was working until the update, now is > showing up with horrible (almost not readable) text fonts (Is there a > way > to attach a screenshot?). There's no point. Anyone subscribed to this list will already know what your problem is. > I have tried to do a new installation of cygwin on another machine. On > the > fresh installed machine the same application exports fine with the > correct > fonts. > > This means that the update is the problem. No. The problem is that you didn't do your research before updating, and once you had the problem, you don't appear to have tried to find out the answer before posting your question. Please look in the announcements archive at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/ You should then check the FAQ here http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/ and the user guide here http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/ If you're still not sure what your problem is, before posting again please search the archives of this mailing list at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/ where the topic has been discussed MANY times. Phil This email has been scanned by Ascribe Ltd using Microsoft Antigen for Exchange. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/