Re: Updated Xfree binaries

["Jonathan Fosburgh" <syjef at mail dot mdanderson dot org>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
To: "Jonathan Fosburgh" <syjef@mail.mdanderson.org>; "Suhaib Siddiqi"
<s_m_siddiqi@yahoo.com>; <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 8:58 AM
Subject: RE: Updated Xfree binaries


>
>
> > > Xwin.exe has following fixed:
> > > --------------------------------
> > > 1) Improved texture support for DirectX 6.0 and
> > > higher.
> > > 2) some users reported XWin.exe was crashing on
> > > Windows Nt 4.0 with error "cannot open font "fixed".
> > > Problem fixed in new fonts archive.
> > >
> > It now works on my NT4.0 system, but not with the lesstif binary
> > of mwm.  Do
> > I need to compile lesstif on my own to get it to work? Behaviour
> > with mwm is
> > exactly what I had with the prior version of XWin.
>
> mwm in Lesstif is buggy.  It is MWM 1.0 clone of OSF/MOTIF, which
> OSF scrapped a long time ago.  You may consider vtwm which emulates
> MWM feel and look.
>
> Suhaib
>
Now it stopped working again. I had it working after going back to vtwm, but
one crash of vtwm, and now I am getting the same X server crashes I was
getting, even after rebooting.