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RE: Font Problem?
- To: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Subject: RE: Font Problem?
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:13:41 +0200 (CEST)
- Cc: cygwin xfree <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:51:26AM +0800, Tam
> > Patrick-S.P.-w12297 wrote:
> > > After re-installing the entire April 14 binaries, I also
> > has the large font display problem while using XDMCP to
> > connect to a linux box running Redhat 7.0. The large font on
> > gdm welcome screen
> > (-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-180-*-*-*-*-*-*) could
> > not be displayed on the xfree/cygwin. I recalled that the
> > fonts could be displayed correctly before using the April 14 binaries.
> > >
>
> I will check into it. In the meantime you can copy the fonts from Linux
> box if you want. go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ directory on your Linux
> box then tar gzip the fonts directory. Ftp it to Windows and
> untar into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11.
>
You can use the X font server.
On your linuxbox start "xfs" and add the parameter "-fp tcp/linuxbox:7100" to
the XWin command. This will use the font server on the linuxbox listening on
port 7100 (which is default). I use this to have only a minimum X installation
without the fonts on windows.
bye
ago
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