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RE: startx fails with: could not open default font 'fixed'
- To: "Karr, David" <david dot karr at cacheflow dot com>, <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: startx fails with: could not open default font 'fixed'
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 17:59:33 -0400
David,
> First of all, the FAQ entry seems slightly wrong. The paragraph on point
> "1" begins thusly:
>
> Using Xinstall.sh to install Cygwin/XFree86 on a text-mode Cygwin mount
> rather than binary-mode mount. You will
> need to change your default Cygwin mount mode to binary-mode and rerun
> the Xinstall.sh script ...
Remember to read the sentence right before that:
There are two known ways of installing the fonts that causes the end of line
characters to be incorrect: Using Xinstall.sh to install Cygwin/XFree86 on a
text-mode Cygwin mount rather than binary-mode mount.
> If I understand this correctly, the first sentence should have "text-mode"
> and "binary-mode" reversed.
Nope. You didn't read everything in the question/answer.
> Now, on the alternative idea of "manually ungziping and untarring", what
> exactly do I ungzip and untar, and where do I put it? The FAQ
> entry refers
> to using a non-Cygwin-aware unpacker, like "Winzip", which I
> don't presently
> have
Oh man. Now I know that you aren't reading everything. Question/Answer 6.3
specifically says NOT to use Winzip.
You really have to read more carefully.
Harold