From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23677 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2004 20:54:36 -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 23624 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2004 20:54:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO roger.ecn.purdue.edu) (128.46.105.87) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Jan 2004 20:54:34 -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 i0DKsSRa026044 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:54:28 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <40045AFE.6010904@purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:54:00 -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 ... References: <40043514.9040900@purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <40043514.9040900@purdue.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; 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/msg00329.txt.bz2 List-Id: Well, after having obtained the most recent packages: Cygwin Package Information Package Version Status Xaw3d 1.5D-4 OK xfig 3.2.4-5 OK XFree86-bin 4.3.0-8 OK I find I still have the same problem. However, as I said before, it only happens if I'm running the motif window manager (mwm). It is otherwise not an issue under twm or if I run startxwin.bat. Thanks for all your help. --B. B. Marchand wrote: > 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 out of date and lists XFree86-bin-4.3.0-5 as the most recent version.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. >> > >