Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Chan Seng Loong wrote:

> hi again...
>
> Thanks to Mr. Igor Pechtchanski, the "[: Seng: unknown
> operand" problem is eleminated with the power of ""
> qutoes :-D

Good.  Harold, how do you want to go about incorporating the patch?

> [snip]
> Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
> Warning: Cannot convert string "" to type XftFont
>
> Now the problem is the Fontconfig and freetype2 packages....
> yes, I'm doing the "Install from Internet"
> but in the XFree86 category... I only find:
> [snip]

They're both in the Libs category.

> Hmmm...........
>
> maybe they should include a search package
> option......
> can't find the Fontconfig and freetype2...
>
> Btw, is fontconfig file in etc/X11 directory?

First off, there's a package search page on the internet:
<http://cygwin.com/packages/>.  You can also use the "Full" view in the
setup program to see all packages in alphabetical order (or the "Not
installed" view to limit the packages to those not on your system).
HTH,
	Igor
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