Borge, I have Mentor Graphics Design Architect running under Cygwin/Xfree86 after installing the Mentor fonts. I hope this tutorial will help you and others get up and running. I may have some typos in the commands, so watch out, but it should be accurate enough for you to get the idea of what needs to be done.
First you have to extract the Mentor fonts from the Mentor installation on your Unix/Linux system. The instructions below roughly follow the instructions provided in the following URL: http://wwww.hummingbird.com/exceedusers/Jan1999/0031.html Run the Mentor font extraction tool: mkdir /tmp/Mentor $MGC_HOME/bin/mgc_font_collect -v -p /tmp/Mentor cd /tmp tar -zcvf mentor_fonts.tgz Mentor Now, transfer the mentor_fonts.tgz file to /tmp your Cygwin machine, and install the fonts into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Mentor: cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts tar -zxvf /tmp/mentor_fonts.tgz Next, create compressed PCF fonts and build a fonts.dir font database for the Mentor directory: cd Mentor gzip * mkfontdir . Now all you need to do is add the new Mentor font directory path at the end your font path: xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Mentor This needs to be done once each time your run the Xfree server - I haven't yet figured out how to make the new font path permanent. I need to research XF86Config a little better, but it appears Xfree86 does not use XF86Config. It's handled differently under Windows than Linux. Manybe someone can offer some tips. Now, run your Mentor tool from your remote host, and watch it pop up with the correct icons! Once you have installed the Mentor fonts on one Cygwin/Xfree machine, you can simply archive the Mentor fonts directory and unarchive them on other machines you want to install: tar -zcvf /tmp/mentor_xfree_fonts.tgz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Mentor tar -zxvf /tmp/mentor_xfree_fonts.tgz -C / Don't forget to xset the font path! Here's another resource I fount very helpful: http://xfree86.org/4.2.0/fonts2.html#2 Happy designing! Regards, Tim
