RE: Cygwin-XFree 4.03 and XFCE 3.3.4

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Werner,

> I installed Xfree 4.03 and XFCE 3.3.4  and found some problems (xfree
> itself works fine, the problems are only in xfce):

I have no idea what is wrong with XFCE, but Cygwin/XFree86 4.0.3 is way out
of date.  Cygwin/XFree86 4.1.0 has been out since May 2001.  Download
Cygwin/XFree86 4.1.0 from a different mirror and reinstall.

You could try building XFCE on your own machine as a test to see if the
problems go away.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Werner Flugel
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 10:02 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Cygwin-XFree 4.03 and XFCE 3.3.4
>
>
> Hallo,
> I installed Xfree 4.03 and XFCE 3.3.4  and found some problems (xfree
> itself works fine, the problems are only in xfce):
>
> 1. There are no letters visible in the xfce-menus, only little
> rectangles for each letter.
> Is it a bug or a misconfiguration? How can I fix it?
> 2. There is a line in the .gtkrc-file "pixmap_path /vsr/xfce/:.:/",
> but a drectory /vsr
> doesn't exist. Is it a typo and means /var...? (But I found the same
> string (/vsr/xfce) in the xfce.exe-file and the xfclock.exe-file too,
> so I set a symbolic link /vsr pointing to /var. It works, but it is
> ugly.)
>
> Hope you can help me. Thanks a lot.
>
> regards from germany
>
> Werner