XFree 6.8.2.0-4- Failed Graphics startup, White windows.

2005-08-01 Thread Lowe Rob-ROBLOWE2
Hi Guys, I have a problem with my XP installation on a Dell Latitude laptop. My X knowledge is sadly lacking I'm afraid I have always looked plaintively at IT for help on such things in the past. I have just installed the latest, I think, version of cygwin and tried to start up the X

Re: fonts in Cygwin

2005-08-01 Thread Klaus Kassner
Michael Denk wrote: On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Klaus Kassner wrote: I do get most fonts correctly, including, incidentally, the normal Helvetica. But some of the fonts are not there, in particular Helvetica-Narrow. Ah, now I see your problem. Doesn't work for me either with Helvetica-Narrow.

Using xauth with Cygwin-X

2005-08-01 Thread Larry Griffith
I use openSSH running under Cygwin-X to communicate with a Solaris workstation at work. When I logged into Solaris with SSH, I received messages that there was no valid xauth data and that fake data would be used for X11 forwarding. My mail reader (exmh) also complained repeatedly about

Re: fonts in Cygwin

2005-08-01 Thread Michael Denk
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Klaus Kassner wrote: I have tried to find out where these fonts are on my work computer, where everything is available under ubuntu, but I have not yet fully figured out how to use them on other computers. It seems that Helvetica Narrow is actually some Nimbus Sans font

Re: Translucency

2005-08-01 Thread Ron Geis
Michael, You definitely shed some light on the subject but I'm having the same problem: Everytime I start xcompmgr, my XWin server crashes. xcompmgr-1.1.1 compiled quite nicely under cygwin and I changed startxwin.bat to take out the -multiwindow option from XWin and ran it with -rootless. Then