Remote X clients (xterm, nedit, ...) dying

2004-05-10 Thread Halpaap, Mark
Hello, I've been using Cygwin/X for a few month now, and it mostly worked, recently even the X steals selection annoyance got fixed, great! All of a sudden, however, there's something weird going on: I'm using Cygwin/OpenSSH to connect to remote machines and then use the local Cygwin/X server

Re: Remote X clients (xterm, nedit, ...) dying

2004-05-10 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Mark, Halpaap, Mark wrote: anyone any idea? Yes, this is a common issue that is very easy to work around and has an entry in the FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding Harold

Re: Remote X clients (xterm, nedit, ...) dying

2004-05-10 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Halpaap, Mark wrote: Hello, I've been using Cygwin/X for a few month now, and it mostly worked, recently even the X steals selection annoyance got fixed, great! All of a sudden, however, there's something weird going on: I'm using Cygwin/OpenSSH to connect to

Re: Windows fonts - some observations

2004-05-10 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Antony Baxter wrote: However, I failed to get Windows Bitmap Fonts ( .fon files ) working in the same way. As I understand it, FreeType 2 should support these ok; I symlinked /mnt/win.../*.fon into my ~/.fonts dir, ran fc-cache, tried e.g xterm -fa Small Fonts,

Re: Windows fonts - some observations

2004-05-10 Thread Antony Baxter
However, I failed to get Windows Bitmap Fonts ( .fon files ) working in the same way. As I understand it, FreeType 2 should support these ok; I symlinked /mnt/win.../*.fon into my ~/.fonts dir, ran fc-cache, tried e.g xterm -fa Small Fonts, but everything appeared as white-on-white.

Re: Several problems with ssh and X

2004-05-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 11 May 2004, kkliang wrote: Dear Cygwinners, I have setup the Cygwin environment as my X-server for working on several workstations and PC clusters. It is fine in most aspects, considering that it is free. I have written the following scripts in my .bash_profile to control the