From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 95130 invoked by alias); 7 Oct 2015 00:05:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 95117 invoked by uid 89); 7 Oct 2015 00:05:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=4.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtp.ht-systems.ru Received: from smtp.ht-systems.ru (HELO smtp.ht-systems.ru) (78.110.50.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 07 Oct 2015 00:05:09 +0000 Received: from [95.165.144.62] (helo=darkdragon.lan) by smtp.ht-systems.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) (Authenticated sender: postmaster@rootdir.org) id 1ZjcEB-0000AW-2x ; Wed, 07 Oct 2015 03:05:03 +0300 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (HELO daemon2.darkdragon.lan) by daemon2 (Office Mail Server 0.8.12 build 08053101) with SMTP; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 23:50:44 -0000 Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2015 00:05:00 -0000 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <1632950154.20151007025043@yandex.ru> To: Michael Enright , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 In-Reply-To: References: <5613FCEB.30603@cornell.edu> <56140E93.6060109@dronecode.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-10/txt/msg00078.txt.bz2 Greetings, Michael Enright! >> But there is no need to guess about this, it's documented in the fontpath.d >> section of the Xserver man page [1] >> >> [1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/man1/Xserver.1.html#lbAN >> > I still have questions. > Good old setup_x86 fortuitously gave me the chance to see an error > message involving one of these symlinks. I reviewed the setup log and > read that apparently such a symlink was created as follows: > io_stream:mklink > (cygfile:///etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 -> > cygfile:///usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi) > But there is no /etc/X11/fontpath.d directory on the system. > The man page doesn't say in explicit procedural terms what the end > user has to do to make fontpath.d exist and it doesn't seem to get > created by setup. There are three occurances of fontpath.d on that > page and none of them say where you should put it. > Could we change it to be more tutorial, something like: > If you wanted to modify the priority of the bitmap fonts for example, > you could go to /etc/X11 and create fontpath.d and then here are some > ln commands: > ln -s /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi xorg-x11-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 > ... This should be taken care of by the setup itself. Not by the end user. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Wednesday, October 7, 2015 02:49:51 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple