Problem with "xmgrace" graphing software in recent Cygwin installation

[Marco Atzeri]

On 24.07.2020 05:00, Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I recently installed a copy of the Cygwin software package on my new
> Windows 10 laptop.  However, whenever I try to access the "xmgrace"
> graphing software (by entering the command "xmgrace &" in the xterm command
> shell, as I did on my old Windows 7 laptop), I get the following error
> message:
> 
> [vansc@LAPTOP-OHN2RCVM ~]$ xmgrace &
> [1] 1183
> [vansc@LAPTOP-OHN2RCVM ~]$ --> Broken or incomplete installation - read the
> FAQ!
> [1]    Exit 1                        xmgrace
> [vansc@LAPTOP-OHN2RCVM ~]$

> 
> I tried reading the FAQ, but it was unhelpful for this particular issue.
> Does anyone have any ideas about why this might be happening??  Also, if it
> is an incomplete installation, then does anyone know what set of Cygwin
> utilities I need to install to obtain a fully-functioning copy of the
> "xmgrace" graphing software?

there is an entry about Fonts, and

a strace output shows that xmgrace is looking for type1 fonts on



   /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts

   /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1



in the past ghostscript provided them, but not anymore,
so I *guess* you need this workaround


install "urw-base35-fonts-legacy" package

$ cd  /usr/share/grace/fonts/
$ ln -s /usr/share/X11/fonts/urw-fonts type1


the fonts looked by xgrace are :

/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/d050000l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n019003l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n019004l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n019023l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n019024l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n021003l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n021004l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n021023l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n021024l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n022003l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n022004l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n022023l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/n022024l.pfa
/usr/share/grace/fonts/type1/s050000l.pfa

and their pfb counterpart.

Regards
Marco