xset add to font path kills Xserver

[Harold L Hunt II]

Did you have to run ttmkfdir (or whatever it is called) at any point?

Harold

Thomas Chadwick wrote:

> 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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