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Re: Questions for previous Cygwin/X maintainers
- From: "Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 18:43:33 -0500
- Subject: Re: Questions for previous Cygwin/X maintainers
- References: <444C3E58.5020304@users.sourceforge.net> <1145893050.1323.8.camel@zipoli.prudsys.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> afair "fixed" and "cursor" (cursor.pcf.gz) from lib/X11/fonts/misc.
> "fixed" is an alias to
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1.
>
> make sure you run these commands in the misc directory in this order:
>
> mkfontscale
> mkfontdir (equals mkfontscale -b -s -l)
I'm pretty sure that I have the fonts installed correctly, as the old
XWin runs with the new fonts via -fp. On the other hand, the new XWin
won't find neither the new fonts nor the old.
> This was an issue on textmode mounts which should have been fixed.
> Otherwise link binmode.o to XWin.exe
That doesn't seem to help.
Are there any patches that may not have been applied upstream that I
should know about? How about Alan or Colin? This really baffles me,
and I'm not sure how to precede right now.
Yaakov
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