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RE: starting X server in window mode.
- To: "'Harold Hunt'" <huntharo at msu dot edu>, "'xfree'" <cygwin-xfree at xfree dot cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: starting X server in window mode.
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 15:44:10 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 3:29 PM
> To: 'xfree'
> Subject: RE: starting X server in window mode.
>
> > No. I do not think it is MapWindowPoints. Read the error messages
> once
> > again. The fonts are either not installed or are corrupted?
>
> Actually, the fonts that are removed from the list are optional. The
> Xinstall.sh script does not require them...
>
I know the fonts are optional.
> I put in the error message for MapWindowPoints a couple of weeks ago
> because
> I had a feeling that it might be failing for some people. I'm not
> quite
> sure why it is failing though, so I'll have to add some extra
> information to
> the error message.
But he is on Windows 98 and on Windows 9x/ME we have a socket issue which
was fixed in recent Cygwin1.dll snapshots. Therefore I asked him to try
that first... before you can conclude it is a MapWindowPoints. A couple of
users after installed latest Cygwin1.dll snapshot were able to use Xserver
on 9x/ME
Suhaib
>
> Harold