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RE: xserv 4.3.0-48 problems
- From: "Andrew Braverman" <abraverman at recurrentsoft dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 12:11:48 -0500
- Subject: RE: xserv 4.3.0-48 problems
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Did you try the ForwardX11Trusted configuration that has been discussed here
over the last few days?
- Andy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Øyvind Harboe
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 12:05 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: xserv 4.3.0-48 problems
>
>
> Note! This is *not* a complaint. I love CygWin + xfree86, and
> I chose to
> be at the bleeding edge because of it.
>
> Something terribly wrong happened when I upgraded to -48. Of course
> CygWin setup.exe upgraded oodles of other stuff as well....
>
> There is a raft of regressions, so I suspect there must be a common
> cause.
>
> - copy&paste from windows to Evolution no longer works.
> - copy&paste from linux to windows no longer works.
> - When I press alt-2, I no longer get "@", but "2", Norwegian
> keyboard.
> - Evolution shows a disturbing error message upon startup:
> 'Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display "localhost:10.0".'
> - If I right click on my "Inbox" in Evolution, I no longer
> get a menu as
> I used to, but lots of error messages from Evolution(after which
> Evolution is no longer responsive).
> - Rendering in Office/Evolution is no longer double buffered,
> and it is
> considerably slower when rendering e.g. spreadsheets.
> - I'm sure there are other problems, but it is a bit hard to take the
> thing for a proper spin in its current state.
>
> Things tried:
>
> - compiled from source, but no difference in behaviour.
> - downgraded to -46, same problem.
>
> The only thing that I can think of trying, is to wipe my CygWin
> installation and reinstall from scratch.
>
> Øyvind
>
>