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RE: XWin95 & fonts
- To: cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: RE: XWin95 & fonts
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 06:55:13 -0400
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
>
>