Re: [SOLVED] Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts?
On Mon, May 21, 2012, at 17:30, Kiehl, Horst wrote: Ronald Fischer wrote [text rewrapped]: xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts I got the error message xset: bad font path element (#90), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax My guess is that you get this message because the directories in the font path are from the viewpoint of the server. If your Xming installation is on the same computer as your Cygwin installation and the latter is under C:\cygwin, your command xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts would translate to something like xset fp+ c:/cygwin/usr/share/fonts You are right - now it's so obvious I could bang my head against the wall! Additionally, if I remember correctly, each directory containing a fonts.dir file must be specified in the font path explicitly (i.e. the directories in the font path are not searched recursively). Indeed, this is the case! Thank you for pointing it out. Now by doing xset fp+ $(cygpath -w /usr/share/fonts/100dpi) the nedit messages about missing fonts are gone! Thanks for helping! Ronald -- Ronald Fischer austria_ru...@yepmail.net There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts?
On Sun, May 20, 2012, at 14:19, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-05-20 05:07, Ronald Fischer wrote: The question remains, why nedit looks at *those* fonts. I'm perfectly happy to specify in the preferences of nedit only those fonts which are actually installed with Xming. However, nedit seems to look at certain fonts, which I certainly have not mentioned in my preferences Fonts are also required for rendering the interface (menus and dialog boxes). True, but this does not apply here (I think), because I when I instruct nedit to use specific fonts (those which are installed on my system) for the interface, nedit indeed uses these fonts, but still displays the error message. Meanwhile I found something in the Cygwin/X FAQs about this problem (I had overlooked it the first time): This seems to be a well known problem with some X applications, and it was recommended to install certain adobe fonts via Cygwin setup. So I run setup again to install the required fonts, and also (via xset) did a refresh of the font path. The problem still persisted. Looking at the installed fonts, I found my fonts being present only in /usr/share/fonts/100dpi and /usr/share/fonts/75dpi as a bunch of gz-files. I'm not sure whether this is correct (i.e. whether the X server is supposed to unpack them on demand), or whether the Cygwin setup script is supposed to do this. I think it is the latter, because when I did a xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts I got the error message xset: bad font path element (#90), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax Could it be that part of the installation is missing on the Cygwin side? In a correct installation, where are these fonts supposed to be stored? Ronald -- Ronald Fischer rona...@eml.cc + If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, + and the bus is interrupted and the interrupt's not caught, + then the socket packet pocket has an error to report. + (cited after Peter van der Linden) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts?
On Sun, May 20, 2012, at 14:19, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-05-20 05:07, Ronald Fischer wrote: Fonts are also required for rendering the interface (menus and dialog boxes). Update: Yaakov, I just found out that you were right in your assumption that there *is* at least one part in the nedit user interface which DOES use preset fonts (which can't be changed): It's how the file names are rendered in the open file dialogue. So this indeed explains the warning I get. What still reminds to do is to install the missing fonts properly - see my previous posting to see what I attempted for this task. Ronald -- Ronald Fischer rona...@eml.cc + If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, + and the bus is interrupted and the interrupt's not caught, + then the socket packet pocket has an error to report. + (cited after Peter van der Linden) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
RE: Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts?
Ronald Fischer wrote [text rewrapped]: So I run setup again to install the required fonts, and also (via xset) did a refresh of the font path. The problem still persisted. Looking at the installed fonts, I found my fonts being present only in /usr/share/fonts/100dpi and /usr/share/fonts/75dpi as a bunch of gz-files. I'm not sure whether this is correct (i.e. whether the X server is supposed to unpack them on demand), or whether the Cygwin setup script is supposed to do this. I think it is the latter, because when I did a xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts I got the error message xset: bad font path element (#90), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax My guess is that you get this message because the directories in the font path are from the viewpoint of the server. If your Xming installation is on the same computer as your Cygwin installation and the latter is under C:\cygwin, your command xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts would translate to something like xset fp+ c:/cygwin/usr/share/fonts The actual format expected by Xming might differ; see the output of xset q for its font path. You might need to experiment a little. Additionally, if I remember correctly, each directory containing a fonts.dir file must be specified in the font path explicitly (i.e. the directories in the font path are not searched recursively). So the font path extension you need is possibly rather something like xset fp+ c:/cygwin/usr/share/fonts/75dpi,c:/cygwin/usr/share/fonts/100dpi Horst smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts?
On Sat, May 19, 2012, at 23:18, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-05-19 05:20, Ronald Fischer wrote: In fact, it is. nedit, like other old Motif (and Xaw) applications, depends on server-side fonts. (Modern GUI toolkits, such as GTK+ and Qt, use client-side fonts via fontconfig or a wrapper thereto.) Therefore, you must install fonts where Xming will find them, and hence this is not an issue per se with nedit or Cygwin/X. I understand, and I'll have a look there! Actually, I thought that fonts are independent of the acutal implementation of the X-Server. I now see that I was wrong. The question remains, why nedit looks at *those* fonts. I'm perfectly happy to specify in the preferences of nedit only those fonts which are actually installed with Xming. However, nedit seems to look at certain fonts, which I certainly have not mentioned in my preferences Ronald -- Ronald Fischer rona...@eml.cc + If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, + and the bus is interrupted and the interrupt's not caught, + then the socket packet pocket has an error to report. + (cited after Peter van der Linden) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts?
On 2012-05-20 05:07, Ronald Fischer wrote: The question remains, why nedit looks at *those* fonts. I'm perfectly happy to specify in the preferences of nedit only those fonts which are actually installed with Xming. However, nedit seems to look at certain fonts, which I certainly have not mentioned in my preferences Fonts are also required for rendering the interface (menus and dialog boxes). Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts?
On Fri, May 18, 2012, at 13:37, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-05-18 07:42, Ronald Fischer wrote: I'm using Xming as X server. This is not a support forum for Xming. But for the cygwin X applications. I think nedit must have a reason to look for these fonts which I have never specified somewhere As far I can see, Xming is not involved here (and I just mentioned it in *case* it is important). Basically, I could imagine two approaches to solve this: Either tell nedit not looking for these fonts, or installing these fonts in a place that nedit can find them. In both cases I don't know how to do it; that's why I posted it her. Posting it to a Xming forum doesn't make that much sense (I think), because the response there would likely be This is not a support forum for Cygwin Ronald -- Ronald Fischer rona...@eml.cc + If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, + and the bus is interrupted and the interrupt's not caught, + then the socket packet pocket has an error to report. + (cited after Peter van der Linden) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts?
I'm using Xming as X server. xlsfonts lists the following fonts as available: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1 -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 6x13 cursor fixed In the nedit preferences, I set the primary font to -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 and then clicked on Fill highlight fonts from primary. However, when I invoke Cygwin's 'nedit', I get the error messages: Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1 to type FontStruct Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1 to type FontStruct Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-medium-o-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1 to type FontStruct Cannot convert string -*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1 to type FontStruct Cannot convert string -*-courier-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1 to type FontStruct Cannot convert string -*-courier-medium-o-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1 to type FontStruct I wonder why nedit is searching for helvetica and courier fonts. What's the best to do in this case? Just for completeness (though it likely doesn't matter here): I also searched the Xming documentation. There is a command (mkfontscale) which makes Windows fonts available to X. I have executed it, and it created a file c:\windows\fonts\fonts.dir, which seems to be a mapping between Windows font files (.TTF, .FON) and X font names. I don't know if or to what extend this could help me with the nedit problem; in any case, this list also doesn't contain helvetica or courier. Ronald -- Ronald Fischer rona...@eml.cc + If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, + and the bus is interrupted and the interrupt's not caught, + then the socket packet pocket has an error to report. + (cited after Peter van der Linden) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts?
On 2012-05-18 07:42, Ronald Fischer wrote: I'm using Xming as X server. This is not a support forum for Xming. Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
