Mintty font problem

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Tue Apr 5 00:41:00 GMT 2016


Am 05.04.2016 um 01:54 schrieb Paul Ausbeck:
> Cygwin setup just updated some older packages while installing a 
> requested new component and now mintty does not recognize fonts 
> properly. I was previously using lucinda-console but now some default 
> font is being used. When I try to change the mintty font through the 
> Options... dialog, the following message appears when I press Select...:
>
> "There are no fonts installed.
>  Open the Fonts folder from the Control Panel to install fonts."
>
> I've looked through the cygwin announce history and mintty v2.3.3 
> advertises some font support changes. I'm still running Windows XP on 
> this machine and I'm wondering if it could be that this new version of 
> mintty has not been tested on XP?
It hasn't, in fact. I'll check that.

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