Thanks a lot Dirk! Your link did the trick. I have installed the font-adobe-dpi75 and now the remote application does work properly! I have already saw the hint on the net of installing the abobe fonts but it was always correlated to emacs showing up with bad fonts ... but my emacs (xamacs) was showing up absolutely properly! that's why I assumed it was not my case!
I still do not understand why I had to install it. I mean: 1) Before it was not installed and the remote application was working properly. Even in the web page "Some packages dependencies have not yet been updated for the fonts they require " well it is a remote application so it should not have anything to do with "local package dependencies": either the font is there or not ..... I guess .. I might be wrong, I am not an X expert. 2) I had a look now at the test system I have installed yesterday (cygwin fresh installed on the up-to-date version, not an update), which did always work. There the font-adobe-dpi75 are not installed and anyway it works. So again (that was my comment on my first mail which maybe was misunderstood): it seems to me that there is a difference between 2 systems which are at the newest state now but one of them was installed in the newest state, the other one was updated to the newest state. I have executed the cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out command on both machines, I have noticed no special differences, obviously the 2 hardware are different, the software installed is different and in the test system there are much less cygwin packages installed being a test. Anyway I had more fonts installed on the productive system then on the test system (follow the list of fonts that were on the prod system which were not on the test font-alias 1.0.1-1 font-bitstream-dpi75 1.0.0-1 font-bitstream-type1 1.0.0-1 font-encodings 1.0.2-1 font-misc-misc 1.0.0-1 ghostscript-fonts-other 6.0-1 ghostscript-fonts-std 8.11-1 ). (I can post the 2 complete outputs if you wish). The thing which makes me still worried is: which other fonts should I extra install to be safe for "future applications". I explain: I am a sysadmin and it happens that I startup remotely graphical applications which would be unpleasant to be forced to stop while executing because of missing fonts (installing stuffs). For completeness I tell you the whole story: * In the past I always started X with the Mortens X-Launcher with the multiwindow & clipboard options set (rest = default) * yesterday I have started the X from the command line (from rxvt) with /usr/bin/XWin.exe :0 -clipboard -multiwindow . The "problem" was that I got no warning and no error whatsoever on console!! * today I have tried to start X from the Start link (the /usr/bin/startxwin.bat ): nothing has started, no X no error. * then I have started X from command line (from rxvt) with /usr/bin/run.exe /usr/bin/startxwin.bat and I got on console an error: <catia.lava...@agdehenw00055:~/Eigene Dateien> /usr/bin/run.exe /usr/bin/startxwin.bat <catia.lava...@agdehenw00055:~/Eigene Dateien> startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 Das System kann den angegebenen Pfad nicht finden. Das System kann den angegebenen Pfad nicht finden. (path not found) and no I had no X. * then I have started X from command line (from rxvt) with /usr/bin/startxwin.sh . I have got X, the same console output as yesterday + DECISIVE the Warning "Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct" It was then clear to me what to do. So thanks again. p.s. Note just to report: even now I get the same error using startxwin.bat, and on the test system there is no /usr/bin/startxwin* at all. p.p.s. @Phil: I work professionally with Unix/Linux Systems since more then 10 Years and I am a Dr. in theoretical Physics. There are for sure tons of things I do not know, I have never worked on and I am not an expert on and I always welcome everybody teaching me something new, but for sure I am not stupid and DO understand things I read, if I don't, I ask. I DO know very well the principle of free software and one of the main principles is" I help you, you help me and things go forward. not because I got paid for what I do but because I want to share my knowledge, my expertise and my time". That's why I find very low level and out of place such no-point ,aggressive, self-satisfied answer in such mailing lists/forum. If you find my question stupid, just do not loose your time answering me, you have not to. And again on free software: it is exactly because I KNOW what free software is that I report problems (not only because I want them solved ... there are other solutions without cygwin to have an X server running!!!). The fact that I report something not working, no matter why, is to be taken with an "ops" maybe we should fine-tune it for the next time so that such problems do not pop up, because, you can trust me there are for sure tons of people out there which have had the same problem and do not have the skill, the time, the will to report the problem and/or to "understand" (as you say) the solution. Free software for sure does not mean you have to be an expert in everything you are willing to use! Externe Mail : cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com 01.04.2009 17:24 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...@bechtle.com schrieb: Please check the FAQ for informations about the update: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#modular There are some changes in the location of file after the upgrade, so you have to set up old start scripts for the X server to the new structure. If you can not solve the problem with, the informations in the FAQ, please follow the instructions for reporting a problem: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html You can check the output of cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out on both computers to see differences. I think it is important to know how you start the X server on both computers and to check for differences in the start up scripts. Regards Dirk -- 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/