TTF-font rendering not working anymore

[Harold L Hunt II]

Fridger,

I don't know enough about this to comment.  Thus, no comment.

I don't know what is wrong.  You already know more than me because you 
have a test case.  I can't say that I have time to look into this right 
now.  If someone else has time, I would appreciate it.

Harold

Fridger Schrempp wrote:
>>After the recent XFree86-freetype2-fontconfig upgrade of Oct 29, the
>>rendering of TTF fonts does not work anymore for me. My TTF fonts are
>>still listed correctly e.g. with 'xlsfonts' but /not/ displayed on
>>screen anymore e.g. with 'xfontsel', 'xfd'...
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>>Also xterm continues to work fine, e.g. 'xterm -fa "Luxi Mono" -fs 16'
>>produces correct anti-aliased fonts.
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>>My Cygwin (XFree86) installation is up-to-date.
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>>Fridger
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> Since nobody has responded yet to my message of Nov. 10 and (an analogous
> one from a second user), I wonder whether TTF font rendering in
> X-applications  works for everyone but me with the latest updates?! Also
> the X-fontserver 'xfs' still appears to be broken...
> 
> Fridger
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