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Re: xset: bad font path element (#58), possible causes are:
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:41:43 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: xset: bad font path element (#58), possible causes are:
- References: <BAY104-F2268016C9BE073F22BA071B52C0@phx.gbl>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, J S wrote:
> $ mkaliasfont helvetica arial > fonts.alias
> + [ 2 -ne 2 ]
> + xlsfonts
> + grep ^-[^-]*-helvetica-
> + sed -e s/^-[^-]*\(-helvetica\(-.*\)\)$/-compat-arial\2 -*\1/
>
> $ ls /usr/x11r6/lib/x11/fonts/test
> fonts.alias fonts.dir
$ cat fonts.dir
0
It seems you need at least one real font in that directory.
I tried and was successful after adding a .ttf font and running
mkfontscale "$fontdir"
mkfontscale -b -s "$fontdir"
removing the entries from fonts.dir produced a similar bahaviour
bye
ago
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