Re: [Fontforge-devel] I can't start Fontforge on Cygwin/MS Windows...

[Wiesiek <ef...@gm...>]

2007/2/11, gw...@si... <gw...@si...>:
>
> Quoting S Young <ess...@gm...>:
>
> > Hello, all,
> > I am running Windows XP with a recent release of Cygwin, and I have gone
> > through the instructions of installing Fontforge and running it.
> However, no
> > matter what I do, I can't seem to start the program. I started the large
> X
> > window by typing "xinit", and in the smaller Xterm window, I did type
> "twm
> > &" to get the window manager. All of it works up until now, but when I
> type
> > "fontforge -new" , nothing happens. Can you help me? Maybe I'm not doing
> > something right, but I don't know what's happening...
> I don't either.
>
> What kind of "nothing" are we talking about?
>   1) Does the window just hang after typing fontforge?
>   2) Do you get another shell prompt?
>   3) Do you get an error message?
>

I have the same problem.
1. No. Oly next ready line.
2. Yes. For example "mc" work after.
3. None error. Realy "nothing".
Wiesiek