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RE: Problem with CDE Fonts, etc.
- Subject: RE: Problem with CDE Fonts, etc.
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:26:04 +0200 (CEST)
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Bang, Steinar wrote:
> Lalit Patil [mailto:lpatil@engin.umich.edu] writes:
>
> [snip!]
> > However, the fonts that are seen by me on my
> > windows screen after connecting to the Solaris
> > or HP machine are not similar to the ones that can
> > be seen on the SUN/HP workstation itself.
> [snip!]
> > I am a complete new user to cygwin and xfree86. So,
> > I have no idea if this error is because of the
> > incorrect setting of the font path or
> > non-availability of the fonts or something else.
>
> I'm guessing that you're missing some fonts on
> the Windows machine.
>
> If so, then you have two choices:
> 1. figure out where the workstation has installed
> the fonts it uses, copy them to the windows
> box, and install them there
> (how well does XFree86 support different XFree86
> fonts? I'm guessing that it supports TrueType?
> Does it support X11 pixmap fonts? Does it support
> Type1 fonts?)
> 2. figure out if the workstation runs a font server,
> and connect Cygwin/XFree86 to it
> (does Cygwin/XFree86 support font servers? I've
> searched the FAQ, the User's Guide and google
> without finding anything about it)
Yes it does.
I've added a section on setting up a fontserver to my xfree-page
<http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree>
bye
ago
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