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Re: Could not open default font 'fixed'
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> Jeff Wolkove wrote:
>
> > I had the above error when I attempted to run startxwin.bat. The FAQ says
> > I should nudge the mailing list so here I am nudging. Does anyone know
> > of a fix for this error? Let me know if you need any further details.
>
> Yes, we all know the answer, but it looks like it took me quite a long
> time to get around to updating the FAQ :)
>
> There is now a detailed answer were there was previously a request to
> nudge the mailing list by 2003-01-31... I hope I mistyped that as 2003
> when it really should have been 2004. It would be a little silly if it
> really took longer than a year to revisit this issue.
>
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof
>
> Harold
Harold,
FWIW, you should be able to simply re-run any one of the
/etc/postinstall/XFree86-f*.sh.done scripts... :-)
Igor
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