On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 21:56 -0500, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > I'm now trying to get XWin from xorg-server-1.0.2 running. I got it to > build with a few minor patches, but it can't seem to find the fonts, > similar to the FAQ: > > http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof > > I have all the fonts installed and have run mkfontdir, mkfontscale, and > fc-cache on the font directories. I've even tried running /usr/bin/XWin > with the old /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directories (via -fp arg), but it > still can't find the fonts. > > 1) What are the bare minimum fonts required for running XWin?
afair "fixed" and "cursor" (cursor.pcf.gz) from lib/X11/fonts/misc. "fixed" is an alias to -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1. make sure you run these commands in the misc directory in this order: mkfontscale mkfontdir (equals mkfontscale -b -s -l) mkfontdir reuses some information created by mkfontscale to create the entries for the scaleable fonts. > 2) Is mounting the fonts directory necessary? On one machine, on which > xorg-x11-6.8.2 was the first version installed, there is no such mount, > and yet the old XWin runs. This was an issue on textmode mounts which should have been fixed. Otherwise link binmode.o to XWin.exe -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
