Cygwin/X (XWin) falls down when using -fp option

[Jon TURNEY]

Jana Sklenièkovå wrote:
> Because I couldn't find anything unusual or helpful in the logs I
> captured packets using Wireshark. So far I found this:
> 
> -------- Solaris to Cygwin ------------------------
> X11, Request, opcode: 51 (SetFontPath)
> opcode: 51 (SetFontPath)
> unused
> request-lenth: 14
> str-number-in-path: 2
> unused
> path
>    "tcp/Solaris_IP_address:7100"
>    "/etc/dc/config/xfonts/c"

> It looks like the Solaris sends font path, that Cygwin doesn't understand.

I guess this means your logon scripts are trying to add 
"/etc/dc/config/xfonts/c" to the font path (which isn't going to work very 
well as that directory doesn't exist on the Cygwin box) and possibly treats 
that as critical to a successful login.

You might be able to work around this by creating the directory 
/etc/dc/config/xfonts/c on the cygwin host and running 'mkfontdir' there, but 
really you should fix the logon scripts :-)

(Note that google suggests /etc/dc/config/xfonts/c is a typo for 
/etc/dt/config/xfonts/c)


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