Mintty font selection problem on Windows XP

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 05.04.2016 um 02:40 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
> 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.
This is fixed in the repository. Can you compile 
https://github.com/mintty/mintty/archive/master.zip and retry?
Thomas

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