could not open default font fixed

[Joel M. Baldwin]

--On Saturday, February 09, 2008 11:20 AM +0100 Børge Strand-Bergesen 
<borge.strand@gmail.com> wrote:

> I need your help to set up the X fonts properly. Following the
> suggestions in the mailing list and on the web does not bring about a
> solution.
>
> . . . snip . . .
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,
> removing from list!

Ignore this.  It means nothing.

>
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'

This is what is keeping you from working.


As I remember my solution was some combo of the following items:

1.) Re-installing Cygwin with "Default Text File Type" set to
 "Unix / binary".
  This causes cygwin to use "LF" instead of "CR/LF" for the End-Of-Line 
terminator.

2.) cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
   mkfontdir *

  This rebuilds the */fonts.dir files with the correct EOL.


Hope this helps.  Good luck! :)



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