From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18343 invoked by alias); 21 Nov 2003 19:52:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 18328 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2003 19:52:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Nov 2003 19:52:58 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hALJqvMh015575 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:52:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id hALJqve3015572 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:52:57 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 19:52:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem In-Reply-To: <20031121192050.14367.qmail@web60304.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20031121192050.14367.qmail@web60304.mail.yahoo.com> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00353.txt.bz2 List-Id: 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: . 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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton