Synopsis: if you encounter the fatal server error due to "fixed" font,
and have tried FAQ 8.4 to no avail, switching the end-of-lines to UNIX
may solve the problem:
After following the Cygwin/X installation instruction, running startx
ended with this message, which others have reported, and which FAQ 8.4
(http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof)
attempted to address:
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
Unfortunately, neither of the two listed reasons applied to me. I
confirmed the installation of the required "xorg-x11-fnts" pakcage, and
my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts seemed in tact (misc/ had 414 items).
Still, just for good measures, I tried reinstalling the 5 font related
packages, still no help.
Finally, the Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:03:25 +0100 post by Mikaël Baudet
prompted to try switching from DOS to UNIX end-of-lines, and
reinstalling all the xorg-x11-* packages, and voila, startx worked.
Cheers,
Shang-Wen Cheng
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