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Re: icons not showing
- From: "Scott Alexander" <salexander at taz dot qinetiq dot com>
- To: Hrafnkell Eiríksson <he at klaki dot net>
- Cc: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 14:47:08 +0100
- Subject: Re: icons not showing
- References: <20020530130604.B18101@klaki.net>
- Reply-to: "Scott Alexander" <salexander at taz dot qinetiq dot com>
Yep a work around for this is to lower the screen depth of your windows box
to 16 bit or what ever is closest normaly one down from max.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hrafnkell Eiríksson" <he@klaki.net>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 2:06 PM
Subject: icons not showing
> Hi
>
> I just installed cygwin with xfree and am trying to use
> it to connect to a redhat 7.3 box running kde 3.0.
> I connect via XDMCP query. The login manager works fine
> but when KDE is starting up text in the status dialog
> (starting window manager etc) is garbled (every status message
> is written on top of the last message) and I get no icons,
> not on the desktop and not on the KDE toolbar.
> This is not a problem with other X server running on windows.
>
> Cygwin version is 1.3.10-1 and XFree is 4.2.0-1.
> My windows machine is running win2k with sp2.
>
> Is this a known problem? Does anybody have a suggestion about
> how to fix this?
>
> Thanks
> Hrafnkell