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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: Todd.Owen@health.wa.gov.au
Subject: Re: Unable to connect to font server
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51543E52.9060602@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E09AED3737CE874E80367A14EC9D97FF02B0BAF3@WSC182PEVS.hdwa.health.wa.gov.au>
On 28/03/2013 06:58, Owen, Todd wrote:
> I am trying to use an element of the form "tcp/127.0.0.1:7100" in my
> font path, and it is being rejected. Furthermore, my testing shows that
> XWin is not even attempting to open a socket. Is the "tcp" transport
> still supported in the font path? Question 7.6 of the FAQ refers to this
> syntax, so presumably it worked at some stage.
> # Conclusion: XWin never even made a connection to port 7100.
Sorry, font server font path elements are disabled because of an upstream bug
(See [1],[2])
If you really, truly need font server support, I would suggest you use
xorg-server 1.8.2-1 (unfortunately I can't arrange for this to be offered
through setup due to setup limitations, so you'll have to get it from the
cygwin time machine [3]), or agitate for this upstream bug to be fixed.
> I have tested this on two machines, both running Window XP Professional
> SP3. The difference is that on one machine Cygwin runs under a non-admin
> account, and on the other machine the account has local admin rights. I
> got the same results on both.
>
> Any idea what's going on?
[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2012-09/msg00000.html
[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31501
[3] http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/#cygwintimemachine
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2013-03-28 12:57 Owen, Todd
2013-03-28 13:09 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2013-04-02 7:24 ` Owen, Todd
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