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Re: Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts?


On Sat, May 19, 2012, at 23:18, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 2012-05-19 05:20, Ronald Fischer wrote:
> In fact, it is.  nedit, like other old Motif (and Xaw) applications, 
> depends on server-side fonts.  (Modern GUI toolkits, such as GTK+ and 
> Qt, use client-side fonts via fontconfig or a wrapper thereto.) 
> Therefore, you must install fonts where Xming will find them, and hence 
> this is not an issue per se with nedit or Cygwin/X.

I understand, and I'll have a look there! Actually, I thought that fonts
are independent of the acutal implementation of the X-Server. I now see
that I was wrong.

The question remains, why nedit looks at *those* fonts. I'm perfectly
happy to specify in the preferences of nedit only those fonts which are
actually installed with Xming. However, nedit seems to look at certain
fonts, which I certainly have not mentioned in my preferences....

Ronald
-- 
Ronald Fischer <ronaldf@eml.cc>
+  If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, 
+  and the bus is interrupted and the interrupt's not caught,
+  then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
+		(cited after Peter van der Linden)


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