gvim fontconfig issue from clean install

[Cesar Strauss]

simon godden wrote:
> I installed cygwin from scratch and selected gvim.
> 
> When I try to run it, I get the message:
> 
> No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig
> library is not correctly configured. You may need to
> edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information
> about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual
> page and on http://fontconfig.org
> 
> Other basic x applications are working fine, as is emacs.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

You are probably missing the scaleable fonts, which are not installed by
default. Try installing the xorg-x11-fscl package.

HTH,
Cesar



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