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Using xfs but still get "Missing charsets" warnings.


I am starting Cygwin/X via the startxdmcp.bat file with the command:
XWin -query %REMOTE_HOST% -nodecoration -lesspointer -fp
tcp/%REMOTE_HOST%:7000 -once -clipboard
going to HP-UX 11.11 with dtlogin. Everything seems fine until I go to
launch various apps, at which point I get errors like:

Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Cannot convert string "-dt-interface
user-medium-r-normal-m*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontSet
Warning: Cannot convert string "6x13" to type FontStruct

The font server is in my font path:
>xset -q
Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffffffffff
                        ffffffffffffffff
                        ffffffffffffffff
                        ffffffffffffffff
  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  2/1    threshold:  4
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  600    cycle:  180
Colors:
  default colormap:  0x20    BlackPixel:  0    WhitePixel:  65535
DPMS (Display Power Managment Signaling) is Disabled
Font Path:
  tcp/teossh2:7000
Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled

and xlsfonts lists the fonts OK:
>xlsfonts -fn '-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-m*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-m serif-13-130-72-72-m-90-hp-roman8
-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-m serif-13-130-72-72-m-90-iso8859-1
-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-m serif-13-130-72-72-m-90-iso8859-1
-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-m serif-13-130-72-72-m-90-iso8859-15
-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-m serif-13-130-72-72-m-90-iso8859-2
-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-m serif-13-130-72-72-m-90-iso8859-5
-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-m serif-13-130-72-72-m-90-iso8859-7
-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-m serif-13-130-72-72-m-90-iso8859-8
-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-m serif-13-130-72-72-m-90-iso8859-9
>xlsfonts -fn '6x13'
6x13   6x13   6x13

And the fonts appear to exist:
>cd /usr/dt/config/xfonts/C
>grep -- '-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-m' font*
fonts.alias:"-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-m
serif-13-130-72-72-m-90-iso8859-1" "-hp-hp
user-medium-r-normal-serif-13-130-72-72-m-90-iso8859-1"
>xlsfonts -fn '-hp-hp
user-medium-r-normal-serif-13-130-72-72-m-90-iso8859-1'
-hp-hp user-medium-r-normal-serif-13-130-72-72-m-90-iso8859-1
-hp-hp user-medium-r-normal-serif-13-130-72-72-m-90-iso8859-1
-hp-hp user-medium-r-normal-serif-13-130-72-72-m-90-iso8859-1
-hp-hp user-medium-r-normal-serif-13-130-72-72-m-90-iso8859-1
>grep -- '-hp-hp user-medium-r-normal-serif-13-130-72-72-m-90-iso8859-1'
fonts.dir
us9x17.pcf -hp-hp user-medium-r-normal-serif-13-130-72-72-m-90-iso8859-1
>ls -l us9x17.pcf
-r--r--r--   1 bin        bin          16132 Nov 14  2000 us9x17.pcf

So, I'm at a loss. The funny thing is that if I use an old (XFree86)
version of Cygwin/X, it works fine, without any font warnings.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,

-joel

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