Re: Error with Java program with XFree

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

Frederic,

> Does someone know how to fix it ?
> It looks like this is only a problem of XFree with a color of more than
> 8 bit,
> but I don't understand why ?

Your problem may be caused by the RANDR and LAYER extensions that were
recently turned off (Server Test Series - Test 59) because they caused KDE 3.0
icons with alpha channels to fail to display.

Please try Test 59, which can be installed via Cygwin's setup.exe by selecting
the XFree86-xserv 4.2.0-6 package.  For more instructions and the release
announcement, see:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2002-06/msg00008.html

Please reply to the mailing list with your results.  I'd be interested to know
if this fixes your problem or not.


> This is for me the very last (I hope) thing that prevents me to
> change all of our Exc..d with Cygwin/Xfree (gov company).

On a side note: I wish that we had some idea how many users we have out there.
 From what I've seen on the web there seem to be a lot of system
administrators that are installing Cygwin/XFree86 as a gateway to UNIX or
Linux machines.  These installations might be 10 to 100 users, but we have no
way of knowing because these users have no idea that they are using an open
source project, so they never email the mailing list for support...

Regardless, I love seeing Cygwin/XFree86 saving governments or government
contractors money.  We're putting money back in the peoples' pockets :)


Good luck,

Harold