From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31578 invoked by alias); 21 May 2012 14:42:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 31379 invoked by uid 22791); 21 May 2012 14:41:56 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 21 May 2012 14:41:41 +0000 Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.44]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34CC420D78 for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 10:41:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web2.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.212]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 21 May 2012 10:41:41 -0400 Received: by web2.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix, from userid 99) id 133145C2F16; Mon, 21 May 2012 10:41:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1337611301.11645.140661078548101.2F879C98@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Ronald Fischer To: "cygwin-xfree Mailinglist" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts? Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 14:42:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <4FB943C9.5050209@users.sourceforge.net> References: <1337344975.19135.140661077270361.2D768E6F@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4FB696F1.4040505@users.sourceforge.net> <1337422810.14471.140661077682441.15A8A95F@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4FB87080.4010002@users.sourceforge.net> <1337508450.18474.140661078011845.5D49EDDF@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4FB943C9.5050209@users.sourceforge.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-05/txt/msg00034.txt.bz2 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 + 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/