From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1326 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2004 18:12:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 1310 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2004 18:12:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO roger.ecn.purdue.edu) (128.46.105.87) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Jan 2004 18:12:46 -0000 Received: from purdue.edu (aae105-dhcp-5.ecn.purdue.edu [128.46.105.158]) (authenticated bits=0) by roger.ecn.purdue.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0DICfRa014398 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:12:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <40043514.9040900@purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:12:00 -0000 From: "B. Marchand" Organization: Purdue University User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree Subject: Re: xfig and mwm problems ... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned-ECN: by AMaVIS version 11 (perl 5.8) (http://amavis.org/) X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00315.txt.bz2 List-Id: No, I used a combination of sites at times including: ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/cygwin/release/ ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/cygwin/release ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/release I think the culprit came from ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/cygwin/release/XFree86 I'll try what you suggested. Thank you! --B. > Did you, by chance, use the cygwin.mirrors.pair.com mirror? It is way > out of date and lists XFree86-bin-4.3.0-5 as the most recent version. > > However, all other mirrors should have XFree86-bin-4.3.0-8. Those > additional releases of XFree86-bin fixed the bugs that you are running > into. > > Update your installation with Cygwin's setup.exe using a different > mirror (try mirrors.kernel.org), relaunch your apps (including > XWin.exe) and report your results. > > Harold > > B. Marchand wrote: > > Here's the info you requested: > >Cygwin Package Information >Package Version Status >Xaw3d 1.5D-2 OK >XFree86-bin 4.3.0-5 OK > > > --B. > > Run the following and report your results: > > cygcheck -c XFree86-bin xfig Xaw3d > > Harold > > B. Marchand wrote: > > I did, of course. But, just in case, I tried it again and still nothing. > > --B. > > Keep the mouse cursor in the text entry box when typing. > > Harold > > B. Marchand wrote: > > xfig works fine, so far, under twm. However, I cannot enter text > manually into text boxes if I'm running mwm. For instance, if I > try to save the file I can't enter text into the output filename > box. If there's a property, like text size, I can change it using > the arrows but I cannot enter it manually. I do not have this > problem under twm. > > > > --B. >