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fonts and symbolic links
- From: Boaz Harrosh <boaz at hishome dot net>
- To: cygwin-x mailing list <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:26:23 +0300
- Subject: fonts and symbolic links
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
As I am trying to pack a minimum X installation
(see:http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-07/msg00207.html)
I have played around with using windows fonts and only supplying the
smallest possible fonts in download.
I have done the following:
1) run> mkfontdir - in the /cygdrive/c/windows/font/ directory
2) run> ttmkfdir.exe >> font.dir - I found ttmkfdir.exe in an old
cygwin/xfree (not x.org) installation. It is very useful still. I
suggest someone updates it to the new x.org package or should I have
used something else?
[Q] if I run> ln -s /cygdrive/c/windows/font/
/usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF - On load, XWin.log will still complain
about /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF been not loadable.
But if I deep copy > cp /cygdrive/c/windows/font/*
/usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ - than it is OK. Why would XWin not follow
the symbolic link prepared by cygwin1.dll? This is Important as it is a
big Resource and I don't want to duplicate windows font directory.