Re: Solaris X app crashes with Cygwin/X

[Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Maarten Boekhold wrote:

> 
> 
> Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> > The error message is not of much use. 
> 
> I figured.. I just wish it printed the real font name. Is there a way I 
> can capture the xevent that tries to load the font

I know there is an protocol tracer for X11 but can't find it on the web 
right now. 

But you could try "strings <programname>". This will print everything 
which can be considered as human readable text in the program and you 
can search ther for a common font pattern: -sun- might be a good start.
or anything that matches the regexp -.*-.*-.*

$ strings <program> | grep -- -sun-
$ strings <program> | grep -E -- "-.*-.*-.*"

After you've isolated that name check to which file it belongs:
find the fonts.dir (or fonts.scale) where the string

$ find / -name "fonts.dir" -o -name "fonts.scale" | xargs grep -- "<fontpattern>"

Copy the file to cygwin (eg to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/solaris)
add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/solaris to /etc/X11/font-dirs

$ echo "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/solaris" >>/etc/X11/font-dirs

update the local fonts.dir list

$ font-update

add the new directory to the fontpath

$ xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/solaris

And check if the program works. otherwise you'll have to try with a different pattern

> > But you can always add the fontpath yourself:
> 
> Yeah, but I'm running on a laptop, and I'm not always on the same 
> network. Not sure if that would cause any problems if 'solarishost' is 
> not available...

Yes. most likely. Btw: You can remove the entry as easily as you can add it
xset fp- tcp/solarishost:7100

bye
	ago
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