xset add to font path kills Xserver

[Thomas Chadwick]

I have TrueType fonts working.  In fact, they've worked for over a year 
since I first set them up, and I haven't had to do anything to keep them 
working since first setting it up.  Unfortunately, it's been so long, I 
can't remember exactly what I went through to get it setup.  All I can tell 
you is that it was a 2 or 3 step process and everything I need to know I 
found through Google.

The only thing I do to add the TrueType fonts to my font path is with the 
following call (which has to be run AFTER XWin starts):

xset fp+ /cygdrive/c/winnt/fonts

I've got the following versions of the XFree packages installed...

XFree86-base            4.3.0-1
XFree86-bin             4.3.0-2
XFree86-etc             4.3.0-3
XFree86-f100            4.2.0-3
XFree86-fenc            4.2.0-3
XFree86-fnts            4.2.0-3
XFree86-fscl            4.2.0-3
XFree86-lib             4.3.0-1
XFree86-lib-compat      4.3.0-1
XFree86-man             4.3.0-1
XFree86-prog            4.3.0-4
XFree86-ps              4.3.0-1
XFree86-startup-scripts 4.2.0-5
XFree86-xserv           4.3.0-9



>From: "Benn Schreiber" <bls@starwhite.net>
>Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
>Subject: xset add to font path kills Xserver
>Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:40:05 -0700
>
>I just upgraded my system to the latest XFree (4.3.0-4, I believe). In my
>startxwin I had an xset fp+ to add the truetype fonts directory to the font
>path (which I never got working...perhaps this is a hint, but...)
>
>With the latest bits the Xserver core dumps shortly after the xset fp+
>happens.
>
>So, two questions, which hopefully someone can easily answer:
>
>1) Have you successfully added truetype fonts to your font path? If so,
>how?\
>
>2) Failing at 1), has anyone else observed this problem with 4.3.0-4?
>
>Thanks
>
>Benn
>
>

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