Dear Ken,
thank you very much for your help and the bug fix.
I do have the links in /etc/X11/fontpath.d
xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 -> /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi
and they work fine within cygwin.
I tried to create corresponding links within windows by
mklink "xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20" ..\..\..\usr\share\X11\fonts\75dpi
but I the a message the the file name syntax is illeagal.
A quick search told me that a colon is a really forbidden file name component in
WINDOWS and the mask with " " did not help.
Interstingly a single colon works fine !?!
So why are there colon in the name of the symbolic link, which program reads
these links
and is there a way for me to change my system to use a different link name ?
Best
Reinhard
From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:31:51 -0400
Subject: Re: loading VT100 Font in stand alone program
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On 10/13/2015 10:16 AM, reinhard.ne...@fau.de wrote:
Hi Everybody,
I have written a program "kuplot" that runs inside an X-window terminal
through a
script:
#!/bin/sh
if( /bin/ps | /bin/grep XWin ); then
export DISPLAY=':0';
/bin/xterm -rightbar -sb -pob -title "kuplot secondary window" -e
/bin/kuplot;
else
/bin/rm -f /tmp/.X*-lock
/bin/xinit "/bin/xterm" -rightbar -sb -pob -title "kuplot primary
window exit last"
-e /bin/kuplot -- "/usr/bin/XWin" :0 -multiwindow -logfile /dev/null;
fi
If I start this script from within CYGWIN (both 64 and 32 bit) the VT menu
appears at
the top of my Xterm, and I can change the font size.
If I start the program from the desktop icon, I do get the VT100 menu, but
an error
message of:
/bin/xterm: cannot load font
'misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1'
and a similar message if I try to change the font size.
The program was installed into a separate folder at C:\Program files (x86)
and within this I have folders
bin ! quite a few of the /bin/*dll and /bin/*exe
etc/X11 ! exact recursive copy of /etc/X11 in cygwin including fonts/*
(only gzipped
filesthough?)
usr/share/terminfo ! exact recursive copy
/usr/share/X11 ! exact recursive copy
I seem to be missing the proper link to the VT100 fonts , where would I
have to look
for
that?
You should have a directory /etc/X11/fontpath.d with some symlinks in it. Due
to a bug
in setup, however, this directory may not have been created. The bug was just
fixed
yesterday, so you should use the latest setup (2.872) and reinstall any
xorg-x11-fonts-*
packages that you have installed.
Ken
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loading VT100 Font in stand alone program
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