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Re: Xming.exe comments


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Øyvind Harboe wrote:

> - My first intended use of Xming.exe is to try to make some progress on
> tracking a crash in XWin.exe.  This stranded on GDB problems last I
> attempted to track it down.
> 
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-10/msg00112.html
> 
> - I didn't find any file called /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb, but there is a
> file called /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt

Yes. This is the file. 

> - Rejoice! GDB does not go ga-ga when debugging Xming.exe!
> - I assume it builds upon pretty much the same source as XWin.exe. Is
> the source available? Or even better committed to a CVS server
> somewhere?

Not yet. But http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1802 has patches.
I hope to commit it the next days.

I've a new version posted on
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/Xming.exe.bz2

- -query is working
- fontdirs can use drive letters in from
- default fontpath and rgbfile are relocated
  place Xming.exe in cygwin /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 and it will find
  all fonts and the rgb file.

  The relocation replaces /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 with the path component
  of the Xming binary

> - I noticed Xming.exe depends on msvcr70.dll

yes. It's required for scprintf which counts how much characters a sprintf would
write. Maybe I'll replace that with the snprintf from xc/lib/misc

> - If someone could explain how to verify that a Linux box is configured
> as a fontserver, it would be much appreciated. I think my Debian box is
> running a font server. From my Debian box:
> 
> fury:~# ps -A | grep xfs
>   431 ?        00:00:00 xfs
> - After I launch Xming.exe, it seems like it is stuck waiting for
> something after the Xming.exe window is up. The mouse cursor is stuck as
> an hourglass and the Xming.exe does not redraw. Attached is XWin.log.

Maybe the fontserver is not responding.

most linux distributions havbe it setup without tcp transport. Check /etc/X11/fs/config 
and comment the line "no-listen = tcp"

bye
	ago
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