On Mon, May 21, 2012, at 17:30, Kiehl, Horst wrote: > Ronald Fischer wrote [text rewrapped]: > > xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts > > > > I got the error message > > > > xset: bad font path element (#90), possible causes are: > > Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions > > Directory missing fonts.dir > > Incorrect font server address or syntax > > My guess is that you get this message because the directories in the > font path are from the viewpoint of the server. If your Xming > installation is on the same computer as your Cygwin installation and > the latter is under C:\cygwin, your command > xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts > would translate to something like > xset fp+ c:/cygwin/usr/share/fonts
You are right - now it's so obvious!!!! I could bang my head against the wall! > Additionally, if I remember correctly, each directory containing a > fonts.dir file must be specified in the font path explicitly (i.e. the > directories in the font path are not searched recursively). Indeed, this is the case! Thank you for pointing it out. Now by doing xset fp+ $(cygpath -w /usr/share/fonts/100dpi) the nedit messages about missing fonts are gone! Thanks for helping! Ronald -- Ronald Fischer <austria_ru...@yepmail.net> There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't. -- 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/