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Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when runningunder cygserver support
- From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr dot Volker dot Zell at oracle dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 08:10:47 +0100
- Subject: Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when runningunder cygserver support
- References: <877jxaxgpm.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hi
I tried to find some information about the BigFont extension. This is
from the X man page:
XF86BIGFONT_DISABLE
Setting this variable to a non-empty value disables the
XFree86-Bigfont extension. This extension is a mechanism to
reduce the memory consumption of big fonts by use of shared mem-
ory.
So I tried the following. I enabled the cygserver service again and set
XF86BIGFONT_DISABLE=1 in my environment before starting up XWin. And
voila, xfontsel and uxterm are working properly. So there's definitely a
problem with the shared memory support of cygserver related to the
BigFont extension.
BTW I see the problem also with my mule enabled XEmacs when opening
mails under Gnus with Japanese characters. XEmacs crashes happily, but
not when using XF86BIGFONT_DISABLE or when disabling cygserver.
Ciao
Volker