Re: Questions for previous Cygwin/X maintainers

[Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 18:43 -0500, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> > afair "fixed" and "cursor" (cursor.pcf.gz) from lib/X11/fonts/misc.
> > "fixed" is an alias to
> > -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1.
> > 
> > make sure you run these commands in the misc directory in this order:
> > 
> > mkfontscale
> > mkfontdir (equals mkfontscale -b -s -l)
> 
> I'm pretty sure that I have the fonts installed correctly, as the old
> XWin runs with the new fonts via -fp.  On the other hand, the new XWin
> won't find neither the new fonts nor the old.

Have you tried converting fonts.dir from LF to CRLF and back? 

> That doesn't seem to help.
> 
> Are there any patches that may not have been applied upstream that I
> should know about?  

I don't think so. AFAIR all cygwin changes were commited and there have
not been any fontengine specific patches for a long time.




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