From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 54984 invoked by alias); 6 Oct 2015 23:40:53 -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 54974 invoked by uid 89); 6 Oct 2015 23:40:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-yk0-f179.google.com Received: from mail-yk0-f179.google.com (HELO mail-yk0-f179.google.com) (209.85.160.179) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 23:40:51 +0000 Received: by ykdz138 with SMTP id z138so1062685ykd.2 for ; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 16:40:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ALB7M86l2AGd5cl7nDPqQoVqAE69GHR1rwOeCYssjeo=; b=Q4/QDQWXzshMVUT2nC9JdcAs5AHp6C51kucbTKFjsiCMvjJFoSyGMRjszIfszSaWpW 4Wkf/t8bmrMjyg+K4stH2zmOVuBw706E+TwDZT1rDGfrI0wp7wt8VI2Ws/D8C1nLPWKG PrUF0Zo5h4Q36nMSLKBDtS6y1JPWC5iCmV0C6ylyjwxAKVd7Jf74EqLegihdUPju+yol 8StAbb9DCSwae8/Lbu5nHEKI/uxabnqLnk73w6C8fh0l1CQJmiNNS44v13uqyScgW0yo 2y5RmLjCj2SGdfRhA96OpfJyP9DPdB2Mt8AW8PcJvm5NuDAqs/ohCtnRtr97OMAiCRUU Arug== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnpzckoNgW6qxlCP7F3YZe7t+3wMcHCcL9PreFndm3pOv6kDJXETyldB5z+yG++/pePIGmO MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.129.158.133 with SMTP id v127mr31631027ywg.135.1444174849382; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 16:40:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.37.52.69 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 16:40:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <56140E93.6060109@dronecode.org.uk> References: <5613FCEB.30603@cornell.edu> <56140E93.6060109@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 23:40:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Cygwin/X installation: Unable to extract /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 From: Michael Enright To: Jon Turney Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-10/txt/msg00077.txt.bz2 On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Jon Turney wrote: > > 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 ... -- 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