Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > Jon TURNEY wrote: >> This seems a reasonable interim step, although presumably there is some kind >> of migration path for those applications which only use server-side fonts. > > See the relevant commit notes: > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=385943 > > - From that I gather that they don't intend to deprecate or remove the > feature, just that the default should be one that works OOTB. > >> Won't -enable-built-in just transform that FAQ from "my server can't start >> because it can't read the fixed font" to "my apps can only use the fixed font >> as they can't read any of the others" ? > > Look at Xming patch 13; it appears to allow using both built-ins and > server fonts. This may be the best solution.
Ah, yeah. I'd seen this kind of patch suggested somewhere else and meant to mention that. >> I notice that something (presumably in the existing X installation scripts >> has >> done: > >> mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts" "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts" > >> presumably in an effort to avoid this problem. It might be a good idea to >> arrange a similar thing? > > IIRC that's from a very old monolithic installation and was no longer > used even in 6.8. I don't remember what the purpose of that was. Hmm... I kind of assumed it was an attempt to ensure the fonts directory lives on a binmode mount, as it didn't work on a textmode one. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Cygwin-ports-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cygwin-ports-general
