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RE: xfs under Win98
- To: "'Fabio at Colorado dot EDU'" <Fabio at Colorado dot EDU>, "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: xfs under Win98
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:08:02 -0400
Well, I need to build a debug version and test myself what is going on?
This will take time.
Unless someone else has any suggestions?
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fabio Somenzi [mailto:Fabio@Colorado.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 12:24 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: xfs under Win98
>
> Has anyone managed to get xfs to work under Windows 98?
>
> I can start xfs in various ways. If I use the default settings,
> netstat -a confirms that there is a LISTENING connection of port 7100.
>
> If I put "no-listen = tcp" in my configuration file, xfs complies, and
> can be reached by specifying unix/:7100. I can also change the port
> number. If I make a syntax error in the configuration file, xfs
> refuses to run, which suggests that the configuration file is parsed
> successfully.
>
> However, any attemp to connect to xfx cause it to crash:
>
> xset +fp unix/:7100
> fslsfonts -server unix/:7100
> xfsinfo -server unix/:7100
>
> all cause xfs to "dump core." For instance, with "no-listen = tcp":
>
> home % xfs -config ./XfsConfig &
> [1] 472467
> home % _FontTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.font-unix should be set to root
> xfs notice: listening on port 7100
> home % xfsinfo -server unix/:7100
> FSIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on font server
> "(null)"
> after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> [1]+ Segmentation fault (core dumped) xfs -config ./XfsConfig
>
>
> Background:
>
> I'm trying to get scaled fonts to work. It appears that XWin by
> itself does not support font scaling. Rather, it relies on xfs for
> that.
>
> For instance, "xfontsel -scaled" fails to display font sizes for which
> the font file is not available.
>
> So, I'm trying to get xfs to work, but so far the objective has
> remained beyond my grasp.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Fabio