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Subject: Re: loading VT100 Font in stand alone program
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From: Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu>
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:31:51 -0400
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On 10/13/2015 10:16 AM, reinhard DOT neder AT fau DOT de wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I have written a program "kuplot" that runs inside an X-window terminal through a script:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> if( /bin/ps | /bin/grep XWin ); then
>     export DISPLAY=':0';
>     /bin/xterm -rightbar -sb -pob -title "kuplot secondary window"  -e /bin/kuplot;
> else
>     /bin/rm -f /tmp/.X*-lock
>     /bin/xinit "/bin/xterm" -rightbar -sb -pob -title "kuplot primary window exit last"
> -e /bin/kuplot -- "/usr/bin/XWin" :0 -multiwindow -logfile /dev/null;
> fi
>
> If I start this script from within CYGWIN (both 64 and 32 bit) the VT menu appears at
> the top of my Xterm, and I can change the font size.
>
> If I start the program from the desktop  icon, I do get the VT100 menu, but an error
> message of:
>
> /bin/xterm: cannot load font
> 'misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1'
>
> and a similar message if I try to change the font size.
>
> The program was installed into a separate folder at C:\Program files (x86)
> and within this I have folders
> bin        ! quite a few of the /bin/*dll and /bin/*exe
> etc/X11    ! exact recursive copy of /etc/X11 in cygwin including fonts/* (only gzipped
> filesthough?)
>
> usr/share/terminfo ! exact recursive copy
> /usr/share/X11     ! exact recursive copy
>
> I seem to be missing the proper link to the VT100 fonts , where would I have to look for
> that?

You should have a directory /etc/X11/fontpath.d with some symlinks in it.  Due 
to a bug in setup, however, this directory may not have been created.  The bug 
was just fixed yesterday, so you should use the latest setup (2.872) and 
reinstall any xorg-x11-fonts-* packages that you have installed.

Ken


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