How can get Windows fonts to appear in Oracle Developer with Cygwin/X?

[David Pelinka]

I found my own solution. Here's what I did:

mkdir c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts\TTF
cp \windows\fonts\verdana* \cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts\TTF
start Cygwin bash
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
mkfontscale .
mkfontdir .
exit Cygwin bash
start Cygwin bash
run xset -q and note that the font path now includes the TTF directory
run xfontsel and note that when you select regstry/microsoft that verdata 
appears under fmly

>Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:33:38 -0700
>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>From: David Pelinka <dpelinka@pcc.edu>
>Subject: How can get Windows fonts to appear in Oracle Developer with 
>Cygwin/X?
>
>How can I get Windows fonts to appear in an application running under 
>Cygwin/X?
>
>When I use Cygwin/X 1.5.18 to run the Oracle Developer 9.0.4.2 on Red Hat 
>3.0, I'm don't see the verdana font in the field property sheets. With 
>Cygwin/X, I see 25 fonts beginning with "clean" and ending with "utopia". 
>If I run ncdsoft PC-Xware, I see verdana in the list of 100 fonts 
>beginning with "@arial unicode ms" and ending with "vtspecl_normal".
>
>Here's what I tried:
>1) Expose the Windows fonts to Cygwin on the PC. I copied the windows/font 
>directory to the Cygwin home and ran mkfontscale, but fonts.scale ends up 
>with only a zero in it.
>2) Point Cygwin at the fonts server running on the host. I verified that 
>xfs was running on the server on port 7100. From the PC, I ran Xwin.exe 
>-query {host} -fp {host:7100), and also xset fp+ host:7100. Neither 
>command worked.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.


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