Yep, separately installing the font-* packages with setup.exe solved my problem with the font sizes. I also haven't seen the no input problem since, but it was a sporadic issue to begin with, so I don't know if that fixed it as well.
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Alex Epshteyn <alexander.epsht...@gmail.com> wrote: > I realized that there are some startup errors I wasn't seeing by using > the windows shortcut. Here's what starting xterm on the command line > prints out: > > xterm -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 -ls > Warning: Cannot convert string > "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type > FontStruct > Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct > xterm: cannot load font 10x20 > > I also realized, after some more Googling, that the fonts packages are > no longer included in the distro the same way as before. I'm trying > to fix the problem by installing all the font-* packages now. Will > let you know if that worked. > > > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Alex Epshteyn > <alexander.epsht...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I just upgraded my Cygwin distro, and I'm having the following issues >> with x-term: >> >> 1) cannot input text into any additional xterm window launched by my >> start menu shortcuts. The only xterm window that works is the default >> one that comes up when I start x-server. >> >> 2) cannot change the font size in ANY xterm window. Neither by >> ctrl+rightclick nor the (newly added) menu bar. Selecting any font >> size from the menu doesn't have any effect. (Prior to the upgrade I >> had the default font set to Huge but now it comes up with the >> original, small, default font). >> >> I'm running on Win XP, with xorg-server 1.5.3-7 and xterm 242-1. >> Never had any of these problems before this upgrade (my original >> install was from March '08). I'm attaching cygcheck.out for more >> details on my system (note: some path variables deleted for privacy >> reasons) >> >> The only relevant hit I found on Google is this, which it seems, >> describes the same problem (however his solution of appending -fn >> '*12*' to the command line didn't work for me): >> >> http://www.nomadjourney.com/2008/12/xterm-font-sizing-problems-in-cygwin/ >> >> >> Alex >> > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
