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Dear Jon Turney,
Today I installed cygwin from scratch on a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. I have gotten the Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font. message when
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From: Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; zdzisi...@sbcglobal.net
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:03:13 PM
Subject: Re: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote:
I have
7.4-1
xorg-x11-bin-dlls 7.4-1
The installation and post-install all went smoothly, but on trying to start X11, xterm,
as invoked by startxwin.sh, would say Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
and exit. X11 would run though and xterm -fn fixed would come up just fine
-bin-dlls 7.4-1
The installation and post-install all went smoothly, but on trying to start
X11, xterm, as invoked by startxwin.sh, would say Unable to load any usable
ISO8859 font and exit. X11 would run though and xterm -fn fixed would come up
just fine, sic. I have eventually
be
in the dependencies for packages which use the 'fixed' font, as that font is
now available 'built-in' to the server and the server starts with no fonts
installed.
It seems the specific error message quoted Unable to load any usable ISO8859
font, comes from libXt [1], when it has failed to find
-misc-misc, but when I installed the font package
manually, the above packages all started working.
BUG!
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. 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
. But if I'm not wrong, then
this was rather careless.
Please note when judging me that the main point of my post was to provide an
(albeit inelegant) solution to a problem. The plea was made in passing.
Cheers,
Ben
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* 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
Rajesh Advani wrote:
If someone can tell me how to retrieve a list of all installed packages
on my system,...
This link is a hint:
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
But if you just want a list (with versions), cygcheck -cd is what you're
looking for.
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Larry Hall
menu icon,
the server loads, but no x apps load. If, for example, from bash I
try and start xterm, I get a msg about display not set, which I fix,
and then:
$ xterm
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Error: Aborting: no font found
-
Here's the error
* 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 was getting exactly the same problem after
Dan Moulding wrote:
This time, I was getting Unable to load any usable iso8859 font
errors anytime I'd try to start xterm. I searched the FAQs and the
web, but was unable to find any suggestions that led to a solution. At
one point, while trying to fix the problem, I also got the could not
open
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 05:04:08AM -0800, amorphia wrote:
Can I plead for developers, please please don't make setup.exe broken? I am
sure there are many many users like me who don't expect to have to be
monitoring some random mailing lists in order to work out what else you need
to do when
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 searched the FAQs and the
web, but was unable to find any suggestions that led
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