Re: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font

2009-02-20 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
://perth.ovpit.indiana.edu/gustav From: Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; zdzisi...@sbcglobal.net Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:03:13 PM Subject: Re: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote: I have

Re: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font

2009-02-19 Thread Jon TURNEY
Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote: I have installed the latest version of Cygwin + X11 under Longhorn/Vista Ver 6.0 Build 6001 Service Pack 1, running under WOW64 on AMD64. Cygcheck says that Longhorn/Vista (not yet supported!) but things seem to work, so far. I have downloaded the lot today, Feb 18,

Re: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

2009-02-10 Thread Dan Moulding
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Dan Moulding dmould...@gmail.com wrote: I typically update my Cygwin installations about once a month, and rarely run into any difficulties. However, this morning after updating I could no longer start any X applications due to some apparent font problems.

Re: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

2009-02-04 Thread amorphia
Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 05:04:08AM -0800, amorphia wrote: Can I plead for developers, please please don't make setup.exe broken? I am sure there are many many users like me who don't expect to have to be monitoring some random mailing lists in order to work out

Re: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

2009-02-04 Thread Rajesh Advani
Dan Moulding wrote: I typically update my Cygwin installations about once a month, and rarely run into any difficulties. However, this morning after updating I could no longer start any X applications due to some apparent font problems. Please note that I successfully installed the *new*

Re: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

2009-02-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Rajesh Advani wrote: If someone can tell me how to retrieve a list of all installed packages on my system,... This link is a hint: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html But if you just want a list (with versions), cygcheck -cd is what you're looking for. -- Larry Hall

Re: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

2009-02-04 Thread Matt Stave
I hope this isn't a double post, my 1st msg was bounced for having some sort in inline html. Anyway, I'm having the same issue. I upgraded and now X doesn't start, and has the same error. I tried reinstalling fonts, adding additional fonts, etc. Even renaming my cygwin and download dirs and

Re: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

2009-02-03 Thread amorphia
Dan Moulding wrote: I typically update my Cygwin installations about once a month, and rarely run into any difficulties. However, this morning after updating I could no longer start any X applications due to some apparent font problems. Please note that I successfully installed the *new*

Re: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

2009-02-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
Dan Moulding wrote: This time, I was getting Unable to load any usable iso8859 font errors anytime I'd try to start xterm. I searched the FAQs and the web, but was unable to find any suggestions that led to a solution. At one point, while trying to fix the problem, I also got the could not open

Re: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

2009-02-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 05:04:08AM -0800, amorphia wrote: Can I plead for developers, please please don't make setup.exe broken? I am sure there are many many users like me who don't expect to have to be monitoring some random mailing lists in order to work out what else you need to do when