On Sat, 2015-10-31 at 16:47 +0000, Jon Turney wrote: > On 29/10/2015 19:11, Hans-Georg Scherneck wrote: > > it crashes on x_86 (i.e. 32 bit version) too, even after re-installing > > the xorg-server packages. > > xfig won't show the export window before it crashes. What else can I do? > > Any step-by-step procedure with xorg-server renewal? > > Is there an issue with Athena widgets? > > I'd suggest, as an alternative workaround, with the current server: > > ln -s /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi > /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:pri=40
I'm not sure we should recommend this. > It seems that xfig requires the font '*-times-medium-r-normal--16-*' for > that dialog, but that is not one of the sizes provided by > xorg/font/adobe-*dpi (14 and 17 are the nearest), so we have to allow > this font to be scaled (or provide a scalable font which also matches > that XLFD) Fedora carries the following patch (among others): http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/xfig.git/tree/xfig-3.2.5-urwfonts.patch We currently provide the URW fonts in ghostscript-fonts-std. That should be rebuilt to add a symlink in /etc/X11/fontpath.d, and xfig rebuilt with that patch (and possibly others from that set as well). -- Yaakov -- 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
