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Re: Solaris X app crashes with Cygwin/X
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:27:46 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Solaris X app crashes with Cygwin/X
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On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> Alexander,
>
> if this is because of missing fonts, why does it work when I run it from
> a CDE session started with XWin :1 -query remotehost? Doesn't is still
> use the fonts that are local to the X-Server?
Solaris uses some magic in the xsession scripts where they add a fontpath
to the solaris fontserver. sometimes this works and sometimes not.
> eg. If I run the app as described above,I do not expect it to get its
> fonts from the Solaris box, I expect it to still use the fonts that are
> on my cygwin machine.
check the fontpath with xset q|grep -A 1 "Font Path:"
most likely you'll see something like tcp/solarishost:7100 in the line
bye
ago
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