[esp-r] Re: Cyginw font problems

[Ferguson, Alex]

Hi Ian,

I never satisfactorily diagnosed the problem. In the end, I reinstalled
every package I could find that pertained to the x-windows system, or
contained the word 'font', and the problem disappeared. My guess is that
cygwin's package manager isn't aware of a key dependency in one of the
new packages.

- Alex

( copied esp-r at lists.strath.ac.uk, as I'm sure others will encounter
this problem in the future.)
_____________________________________________
From:   Ian Beausoleil-Morrison [mailto:ibeausol at mae.carleton.ca]
Sent:   May 29, 2009 11:55
To:     Ferguson, Alex
Subject:        Cyginw font problems

Alex,

How did you solve this problem?  I've just updated a Cygwin installation
and am experiencing the same problem.

- Ian

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I'm struggling with a new-to-me configuration error on a recent cygwin
installation: X11-compiled ESP-r binaries all report "display
127.0.0.1:0.0 doesn't know font 6x12". I have the following flavours of
6x12 installed in /usr/share/fonts:

6x12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz   
6x12-ISO8859-10.pcf.gz  
6x12-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz  
6x12-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz  
6x12-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz  
6x12-ISO8859-16.pcf.gz  
6x12-ISO8859-2.pcf.gz   
6x12-ISO8859-3.pcf.gz   
6x12-ISO8859-4.pcf.gz   
6x12-ISO8859-5.pcf.gz   
6x12-ISO8859-7.pcf.gz   
6x12-ISO8859-8.pcf.gz   
6x12-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz   
6x12-KOI8-R.pcf.gz      
6x12.pcf.gz 

I've tried the font-configuration advice contained in the readme file
(namely "export EFONT_0=6x12"), without success. Can anybody shed some
light on my problem?

Thanks!

Alex Ferguson
Sustainable Buildings and Communities (Housing Group)
CanmetENERGY
Natural Resources Canada
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F:+1 613 996 9909
Alex.Ferguson at NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca
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