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Re: WMaker 0.90 broken?
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: "cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:11:48 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: WMaker 0.90 broken?
- References: <0I7A00H6Q15H3M@pmismtp01.mcilink.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Mark Paulus wrote:
> Well, it does seem to be a font issue. I used
> setup, and did a re-install of a couple of x11 font packages
> and everthing seems to be working just fine.
>
> On a side note, ipc-daemon2 does not seem to provide whatever
> is needed by MIT-SHM, as I get that message, whether
> I have ipc-daemon2 started or not.
You have to setup cygserver.
cygserver-config might help. And adding the "server" keyword to
the CYGWIN environment variable. eg
CYGWIN=server XWin.exe $OPTIONS
@all: Is there documentation available on this?
> I also think it's not a goodness that using setup to handle an
> upgrade breaks the fonts package(s) and causes system
> failures.... But then, that's just my opinion, and as we all know,
> opinion are like rear-ends.... Everyone has one, and they
> are usually all full of ......
It should not. But such things are sometimes hard to reproduce and
hard to identify.
bye
ago
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