git gui menu fonts are too small, unreadable

[Jeff Buckles <Jeff dot Buckles at bookloaf dot net>]

Menu fonts in 'git gui' are too small to be readable
(only one or two pixels high).   "gitk" works fine.

Same result whether I start 'git gui' from the command line
or from gitk.

I'm running cygwin 32 on windows 7.   uname -a shows:
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW myname-LT 2.5.1(0.297/5/3) 2016-04-21 22:12 i686 Cygwin

Starting the X server from tcsh as:
 setenv DISPLAY :0; run xwin -multiwindow
(starting the server in foreground so I can see any 
console messages)

After the flurry of messages from X server initialization,
there is no output to the console or to /var/log/xwin/Xorg.0.log
when starting git gui except one line to the console:

 OS has icon alpha channel support: yes

So far I have tried:
 Searching mailing list archives
 google.  Lots of google...
 installing any missing xorg-X11-fonts-* packages
 re-installing git, git gui, gitk

cygcheck.out is attached with usernames redacted.

Any ideas are welcome.
Thanks and Best Regards,
-- Jeff Buckles
-- jeff.buckles-cygwin@bookloaf.net
-- Aloha, OR, USA

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