XWin warning messages

[Herbert Eppel]

On 11.01.2005 12:18 UK Time, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Herbert Eppel wrote:
> 
> 
>>I wonder whether someone could shed some light on the warning messages I 
>>get when I start up an XWin environment under Cygwin.
>>
>>All I would like to know really is whether any of the messages are cause 
>>for concern and whether I need to take some corrective action (and if 
>>yes in what form).
> 
> 
> None of them are critical. They are mostly status and trace messages.
> 
> 
> 
>>MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
>>XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack 
>>of shared memory support in the kernel
> 
> 
> By installing cygserver you could get IPC support and get these extensions
> working. But only few programs need them so you can well live without them.
> 
> 
>>Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing 
>>from list!
> 
> 
> This is just a message that on of the default locations where fonts are
> expected does not exist. But since barely anyone uses CID fonts this is 
> no problem at all.
> 
> bye
> 	ago

Vielen Dank! :-)

-- 
Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk