Dan Moulding wrote: > > I typically update my Cygwin installations about once a month, and > rarely run into any difficulties. However, this morning after updating > I could no longer start any X applications due to some apparent font > problems. Please note that I successfully installed the *new* Cygwin/X > a couple of months ago, and previously resolved some of the seemingly > more common font problems (like "boxes" showing up in emacs). > > This time, I was getting "Unable to load any usable iso8859 font" > errors anytime I'd try to start xterm. >
I had the exact same problem, and a couple of others including missing "adobe" fonts. Here are the packages I installed, to get over font related issues. I may have installed a few extra ones. font-adobe-dpi100 - To fix the "adobe" font issues font-adobe-dpi75 - To fix the "adobe" font issues font-bitstream-dpi100 - Just in case font-bitstream-dpi75 - Just in case font-bitstream-type1 - Just in case font-bitstream-vera-ttf - Just in case font-misc-misc - I think I read something somewhere on the internet which led me to install this. Don't remember. xorg-scripts - I had trouble with xinit - (specifically the X Win Server shortcut not working from D drive which I've mentioned in another post) I don't think I installed anything else other than the default upgrade options. If someone can tell me how to retrieve a list of all installed packages on my system, I can send that over too. Rajesh -- 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/