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Re: XWin hangs when accessing font server
- From: "Cary Jamison" <Cary dot Jamison at powerquest dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:52:16 -0700
- Subject: Re: XWin hangs when accessing font server
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
"Alexander Gottwald" <Alexander dot Gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de> wrote in
message news:<Pine dot LNX dot 4 dot 44 dot 0303032314120 dot 30048-100000 at lupus dot ago dot vpn>...
> Martin Buck wrote:
>
> > xset fp+ tcp/fonts:7100
> >
> > As soon as the xset commands runs, XWin locks up and consumes 100%
> > CPU time. The same happens if I don't use XDMCP and only start XWin
> > and a single xterm in which I type the xset command.
>
> This was already reported by other users. But until now, no one had
> the time to solve this problem. Maybe you can step in here.
Also note that pointing to a font server on the Xwin command line when
starting it works. The bug is in trying to add a font path later with
xset.
(disclaimer - as I've seen reported here, I don't actually use a font
server)
Cary