Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts?

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On 2012-05-19 05:20, Ronald Fischer wrote:
> But for the cygwin X applications. I think nedit must have a reason to
> look for these fonts which I have never specified somewhere .... As far
> I can see, Xming is not involved here (and I just mentioned it in *case*
> it is important).

In fact, it is.  nedit, like other old Motif (and Xaw) applications, 
depends on server-side fonts.  (Modern GUI toolkits, such as GTK+ and 
Qt, use client-side fonts via fontconfig or a wrapper thereto.) 
Therefore, you must install fonts where Xming will find them, and hence 
this is not an issue per se with nedit or Cygwin/X.


Yaakov
Cygwin/X

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