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Re: [SOLVED] Why does nedit complain about these missing fonts?
On Mon, May 21, 2012, at 17:30, Kiehl, Horst wrote:
> Ronald Fischer wrote [text rewrapped]:
> > xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts
> >
> > I got the error message
> >
> > xset: bad font path element (#90), possible causes are:
> > Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> > Directory missing fonts.dir
> > Incorrect font server address or syntax
>
> My guess is that you get this message because the directories in the
> font path are from the viewpoint of the server. If your Xming
> installation is on the same computer as your Cygwin installation and
> the latter is under C:\cygwin, your command
> xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts
> would translate to something like
> xset fp+ c:/cygwin/usr/share/fonts
You are right - now it's so obvious!!!! I could bang my head against the
wall!
> Additionally, if I remember correctly, each directory containing a
> fonts.dir file must be specified in the font path explicitly (i.e. the
> directories in the font path are not searched recursively).
Indeed, this is the case! Thank you for pointing it out.
Now by doing
xset fp+ $(cygpath -w /usr/share/fonts/100dpi)
the nedit messages about missing fonts are gone! Thanks for helping!
Ronald
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