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RE: Problem with CDE Fonts, etc.


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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