Re: was "missing fonts?" in cygwin@cygwin.com

[Siegmar Gross <Siegmar dot Gross at informatik dot fh-fulda dot de>]

> Siegmar Gross wrote:
>  >> I have upgraded Cygwin to X11R7.4. In the past I could read my e-mail
>  >> via "ssh" and "dtmail" from a Solaris machine with a nice font. Now I
> 
> I assume there are some warnings emitted by dtmail when it starts indicating
> that it can't use the font it wants to use? I would be interested to know 
> exactly what it says.

Yes, I get the following output on the Solaris machine.

tyr fd1026 69 /usr/dt/bin/ttsession -c dtmail
libSDtMail: Warning: Xt Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet 
conversion
libSDtMail: Warning: Xt Warning: Cannot convert string "-dt-interface 
user-medium-r-normal-s*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontSet
tyr fd1026 70 


I got the same output when I connected to Solaris from my older Cygwin
installation with X11R6 (but with a small font in the dtmail window).
It is necessary to start "dtmail" in this way due to a bug in Solaris
or dtmail (I've forgotten which one was responsible), if you want to
start "dtmail" via a ssh connection. I don't see any warnings in the
window of my local Cygwin machine and I don't know if there is another
place where I have to look for warnings from the X11 system.


> I have some difficulty in working out what purpose (if any) the encodings.dir 
> file in the various font directories serves, but you might try updating the 
> encodings.dir file in all the font directories, not just in the encodings 
> directory, rather than rearranging the font path.

When I remember right this was done automatically when I rebuilt the
fonts.dir in /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/. Unfortunately I can't verify this
because the Cygwin machine is at home and I'm in my office now.


Kind regards

Siegmar


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