xfig: Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

[Andy <AndyMHancock at gmail dot com>]

When I start xfig, I get the following:
   Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
   Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
   Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
   ^GCan't open compose key file '/usr/lib/xfig/CompKeyDB',
      no multi-key sequences available

I want to deal wit the font messages first.  I may ask about the compose key
file if I can't resolve it with web search.

Googling the font error yields hits mostly from non-cygwin distributions of
xfig.  Most hits are from people who actually get more detail in the error,
specifying the fonts that are missing.  I don't seem to have that detail in the
message above.  I found that the fonts are stored in /usr/share/fonts, but I
haven't been able to find a description of how to determine which fonts are
missing.  The only font related messages in the XWin log file at
/var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log are:

   [  6157.577] XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization
   disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel

   [  6157.640] [dix] Could not init font path element
   /usr/share/fonts/OTF/, removing from list!

I don't care about "optimizations" at this point, so I ignored the first
message.  Googling "OTF" in the 2nd message reveals that they are
Adobe/Microsoft fonts, so I doubt that is the problem.  In any case, I would
like to avoid installing fonts willy-nilly because there are so many and I don't
want to bloat my system.

Is there an xfig log file or some other means by which one can determine which
fonts are missing?


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