Re: Questions for previous Cygwin/X maintainers

2006-05-11 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 18:43 -0500, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > Alexander Gottwald wrote: > > afair "fixed" and "cursor" (cursor.pcf.gz) from lib/X11/fonts/misc. > > "fixed" is an alias to > > -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1. > > > > make sure you run these comm

Re: Questions for previous Cygwin/X maintainers

2006-05-10 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
Alexander Gottwald wrote: > afair "fixed" and "cursor" (cursor.pcf.gz) from lib/X11/fonts/misc. > "fixed" is an alias to > -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1. > > make sure you run these commands in the misc directory in this order: > > mkfontscale > mkfontdir (equals

Re: Questions for previous Cygwin/X maintainers

2006-04-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 21:56 -0500, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > I'm now trying to get XWin from xorg-server-1.0.2 running. I got it to > build with a few minor patches, but it can't seem to find the fonts, > similar to the FAQ: > > http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font

Re: Questions for previous Cygwin/X maintainers

2006-04-23 Thread Brian Dessent
"Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)" wrote: > 2) Is mounting the fonts directory necessary? On one machine, on which > xorg-x11-6.8.2 was the first version installed, there is no such mount, > and yet the old XWin runs. At some point in the past Alexander has said that the reason for having that mount no l

Questions for previous Cygwin/X maintainers

2006-04-23 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
I'm now trying to get XWin from xorg-server-1.0.2 running. I got it to build with a few minor patches, but it can't seem to find the fonts, similar to the FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof I have all the fonts installed and have run mkfontdir, mkfontscale, a