On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > As I am trying to pack a minimum X installation > (see:http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-07/msg00207.html) > > I have played around with using windows fonts and only supplying the smallest > possible fonts in download. > I have done the following: > 1) run> mkfontdir - in the /cygdrive/c/windows/font/ directory > 2) run> ttmkfdir.exe >> font.dir - I found ttmkfdir.exe in an old cygwin/xfree ^^^^^^^^ Shouldn't this be "fonts.dir" (note the "s")?
> (not x.org) installation. It is very useful still. I suggest someone updates > it to the new x.org package or should I have used something else? Do you Google: <http://google.com/search?q=ttmkfdir+cygwin>? The matches show that ttmkfdir is not part of the Cygwin/X distribution, so you must've downloaded it separately. FWIW, I'm going to do some work with fonts soon, and might consider making ttmkfdir into a Cygwin package, installable via setup.exe. > [Q] if I run> ln -s /cygdrive/c/windows/font/ /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF - ^^^^^ Should this be "Fonts" (note the "s")? Also, Cygwin is sometimes configured to be case-sensitive, and it's always better to use the correct filename case. That would make it (by default) something like /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Fonts. I'd also suggest removing the trailing slash ("/") from the ln command, just in case. > On load, XWin.log will still complain about /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF been > not loadable. > But if I deep copy > cp /cygdrive/c/windows/font/* > /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ - than it is OK. Why would XWin not follow the > symbolic link prepared by cygwin1.dll? This is Important as it is a big > Resource and I don't want to duplicate windows font directory. I don't know how much help it is, but I found that a directory of symlinks (instead of a symlink to a directory) works with XWin. So, try something like ln -s /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Fonts/* /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF and see if it helps. And, as you've already noticed, mount will also work. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw