X11: necessary font package for gxditview

Schwarz, Konrad konrad.schwarz@siemens.com
Sun Mar 30 13:40:46 GMT 2025


Hello,

installing gxditview (and Cygwin/X) in Cygwin does not suffice
to display man-pages properly via man -TX75, man -TX100 etc.
In my case, a fallback fixed width font was used, which looked horrible.

I managed to solve this by haphazardly installing additional
X11 font-related Cygwin packages. However, I think the
situation would be improved if the gxditview package had
a dependency on the packages containing the fonts
It needs, at least for man pages.

The Gxditview man page documents its "Default Font Map",
but I'm not sure how that maps to the fonts used by
the groff X75, X100, etc. devices.

-- 
Konrad



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