I'm using Xming as X server. xlsfonts lists the following fonts as available:
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 6x13 cursor fixed In the nedit preferences, I set the primary font to -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 and then clicked on "Fill highlight fonts from primary". However, when I invoke Cygwin's 'nedit', I get the error messages: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-o-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct Cannot convert string "-*-courier-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-o-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct I wonder why nedit is searching for "helvetica" and "courier" fonts. What's the best to do in this case? Just for completeness (though it likely doesn't matter here): I also searched the Xming documentation. There is a command (mkfontscale) which makes Windows fonts available to X. I have executed it, and it created a file c:\windows\fonts\fonts.dir, which seems to be a mapping between Windows font files (.TTF, .FON) and X font names. I don't know if or to what extend this could help me with the nedit problem; in any case, this list also doesn't contain "helvetica" or "courier". Ronald -- Ronald Fischer <rona...@eml.cc> + If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, + and the bus is interrupted and the interrupt's not caught, + then the socket packet pocket has an error to report. + (cited after Peter van der Linden) -- 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/