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RE: XWin95 & fonts



You need to install in \cygwin\usr\X11R6.  Please do not reinvent wheels.
The Cygwin 
is needed and if you mount cygwin over /usr/X11R6 you basically broke the
entire
cygwin and xfree86.  Follow users guide at http://xfree86.cygwin.com instead
of reinventing
wheels.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurent Pinchart [mailto:laurent.pinchart@capflow.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 3:50 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: XWin95 & fonts
> 
> 
> Hi everybody.
> 
> I'm quite new to cygwin/xfree86, but it seems to me that I 
> did something 
> wrong, or missed something in the xfree86 installation process.
> 
> I downloaded the 4.0.3 binaries, and installed them in d:\cygwin. I 
> mounted d:\cygwin to /, so that xfree86 is in /usr/X11R6.
> 
> I then tried to start xfree86 with the startwin.bat script (and then 
> manually, using XWin95 -screen 0 1024x768x16), and I always 
> get the same 
> error message
> 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> The fonts are installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, and if I remove 
> them the x server complains about not being able to add the 
> font paths, 
> so I guess that I put the fonts in the proper location. I 
> installed all 
> the binary packages (DLL, Win, devel, fonts, programs, twm, 
> xterm, ...).
> 
> Could anyone help me with that ? If I try to specify another default 
> font with -fn I get the same problem, and of course I checked 
> to be sure 
> that the 'fixed' font is in the fonts/misc directory.
> 
> I wanted to change a few settings in the XF86Config file, but 
> couldn't 
> figure where to put it (/etc/X11 seemed to have no effect).
> 
> Hope to hear from you soon.
> 
> Laurent Pinchart
> 
> 


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