Rajesh Advani wrote: > > 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) >
My solution was, at the very least, to re-run setup.exe and to install the package "font-misc-misc". Once I did that, XWin stopped hanging and xterm and xclock ran without a hitch. I found this nugget of information buried deep in the http://www.nabble.com/forum/Reply.jtp?post=21828473 Cygwin/X FAQ page , section 9.4, sub-item 1. To quote: "You do not have a font package which provides the default font ('fixed') installed. This is rarely the problem; but in the event that it is the problem, just rerun Cygwin's setup.exe, select the font-misc-misc package and install it." I find the phrase "This is rarely the problem" to be ironic, considering that it seems to be the most common, based on what I've read. The problem (lately) is that font-misc-misc is a prerequisite, but it is not (no longer?) flagged as one by setup.exe when you choose the various xorg packages. The packages I installed were... + xauth + xclock + xcursor-themes + xhost + xinit + xkbcomp + xkeyboard-config + xmodmap + xorg-server + xrdb + xterm None of these flagged font-misc-misc, but when I installed the font package manually, the above packages all started working. BUG! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Unable-to-load-any-usable-iso8859-font-tp21793574p21964005.html Sent from the cygwin-xfree mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/
