From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27793 invoked by alias); 22 May 2012 07:04:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 27778 invoked by uid 22791); 22 May 2012 07:04:36 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 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 out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out5-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.29) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 May 2012 07:04:22 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id A406A21654 for ; Tue, 22 May 2012 03:04:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web2.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.212]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 22 May 2012 03:04:21 -0400 Received: by web2.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix, from userid 99) id 7F6215C2FA9; Tue, 22 May 2012 03:04:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1337670261.21780.140661078944097.1608A0FC@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Ronald of Steiermark To: "cygwin-xfree Mailinglist" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts? Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 07:04:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <4094A9D4E3EC2544B795DFEA610AE88C18173D691B@IBT040.ibt-w2k.kfa-juelich.de> 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> <1337611301.11645.140661078548101.2F879C98@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4094A9D4E3EC2544B795DFEA610AE88C18173D691B@IBT040.ibt-w2k.kfa-juelich.de> 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/msg00038.txt.bz2 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 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/