Re: Newbie seeking help.

Dear Mike, Good day. I think that's help. Many Thanks. Rgrds, bt. --- Michel Bardiaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > bt tan wrote: > > > --- bt tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Dear Mike, > >> > >>Here's the output of ./configure > >> > [snip] > >>checking for X... (cache

Re: fonts and symbolic links

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > I think of adding a wrapper which reads directories and encodings from > > > configfiles (+some builtins) and does the fontdir update for us. > > > > Yep, that'd be great. Thanks. > > check t

Re: fonts and symbolic links

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > I think of adding a wrapper which reads directories and encodings from > > configfiles (+some builtins) and does the fontdir update for us. > > Yep, that'd be great. Thanks. check the attached script. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re: fonts and symbolic links

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Ah, I see now. One more question: the above commands seem to ignore all > > > of the "microsoft-cp12*" encodings except "microsoft-cp1252".

Re: fonts and symbolic links

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Ah, I see now. One more question: the above commands seem to ignore all > > of the "microsoft-cp12*" encodings except "microsoft-cp1252". I found > > that I needed to add an explicit "-a microsof

Re: fonts and symbolic links

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Sorry for the mess-up above, that should have been "`cygpath -W`/Fonts" > (but you still need the quotes). right. > > > > mkfontscale -b -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows > > > > > > Is "ttmkfdir" needed here too? > > > > no. mkfontscale (and

Re: fonts and symbolic links

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows > > > lndir `cygpath -W` /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows > >^ > > Shouldn't this be > > > > lndir "`cygpath -W`"'\Fonts' /usr/X11R

Re: fonts and symbolic links

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows > > lndir `cygpath -W` /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows >^ > Shouldn't this be > > lndir "`cygpath -W`"'\Fonts' /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows > actually yes. missed that when copyi

RE: Newbie: GB layout, M$ Natural keyboard does not work

These are the mount settings: C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmode) C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) C:\cygwin\tmp on /tmp type system (binmode) C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) The F

Re: fonts and symbolic links

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > > There is a sourceforge project for ttmkfdir. They only have ELF binaries > > for download. It was easier to find it on the net than to compile. I > > found it packaged with cygwin/XFree86 so I assume

RE: Newbie: GB layout, M$ Natural keyboard does not work

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Liam Friel wrote: > I checked the FAQ, but it was not exactly enlightening. > > xkbcomp -w 3 -xkm ... as given in the FAQ works with no errors, but any setxkbmap > command fails with "Error loading new > keymap description" have you check the mount settings? bye ag

RE: Newbie: GB layout, M$ Natural keyboard does not work

> (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "1809" (1809) > (--) Using preset keyboard for "Irish" (1809), type "4" > BTW: Is this correct? It would load the "ie" layout by default. It loads the "ie" layout by default unless you override it with the -xkblayout option on the Xwin.exe command line

RE: Newbie: GB layout, M$ Natural keyboard does not work

I checked the FAQ, but it was not exactly enlightening. xkbcomp -w 3 -xkm ... as given in the FAQ works with no errors, but any setxkbmap command fails with "Error loading new keymap description" Is this a search path thing? /etc/X11/xkb or its subdirs are not on the path. Do they have to be, o

RE: Newbie: GB layout, M$ Natural keyboard does not work

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Liam Friel wrote: > Aha, > > That was a useful hint. > > Anyhow the interesting bits of Xwin.log are these: > > (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "1809" (1809) > (--) Using preset keyboard for "Irish" (1809), type "4" BTW: Is this correct? It would load the "ie" la

RE: Newbie: GB layout, M$ Natural keyboard does not work

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Liam Friel wrote: > Aha, > > That was a useful hint. > > Anyhow the interesting bits of Xwin.log are these: > > (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "1809" (1809) > (--) Using preset keyboard for "Irish" (1809), type "4" > (++) XKB: model: "microsoft" > (++) XKB: layou

RE: Newbie: GB layout, M$ Natural keyboard does not work

Aha, That was a useful hint. Anyhow the interesting bits of Xwin.log are these: (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "1809" (1809) (--) Using preset keyboard for "Irish" (1809), type "4" (++) XKB: model: "microsoft" (++) XKB: layout: "gb" Rules = "xorg" Model = "microsoft" Layout = "gb" Var

Re: Newbie: GB layout, M$ Natural keyboard does not work

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Liam Friel wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a Cygwin installation on XP and have recently installed the latest X11 > software for it. > Working fine, except for one minor irritation. > > I have a Microsoft Natural keyboard, UK layout. X seems to ignore (for all practical > purpo

Newbie: GB layout, M$ Natural keyboard does not work

Hi, I have a Cygwin installation on XP and have recently installed the latest X11 software for it. Working fine, except for one minor irritation. I have a Microsoft Natural keyboard, UK layout. X seems to ignore (for all practical purposes) the options -xkbmodel "microsoft" -xkblayout "gb" wh

Re: fonts and symbolic links

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > There is a sourceforge project for ttmkfdir. They only have ELF binaries > for download. It was easier to find it on the net than to compile. I > found it packaged with cygwin/XFree86 so I assumed it was a part of > cygwin/XFree86. it was but recently

Re: fonts and symbolic links

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Shouldn't this be "fonts.dir" (note the "s")? Sorry, Its a typo, all these missing "s"s and the wrong case. I did not paste my actual script Just re-typed it in the mail. The actual code is exactly as you said. Do you Google: