Greetings, Michael Enright! >> But there is no need to guess about this, it's documented in the fontpath.d >> section of the Xserver man page [1] >> >> [1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/man1/Xserver.1.html#lbAN >>
> I still have questions. > Good old setup_x86 fortuitously gave me the chance to see an error > message involving one of these symlinks. I reviewed the setup log and > read that apparently such a symlink was created as follows: > io_stream:mklink > (cygfile:///etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 -> > cygfile:///usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi) > But there is no /etc/X11/fontpath.d directory on the system. > The man page doesn't say in explicit procedural terms what the end > user has to do to make fontpath.d exist and it doesn't seem to get > created by setup. There are three occurances of fontpath.d on that > page and none of them say where you should put it. > Could we change it to be more tutorial, something like: > If you wanted to modify the priority of the bitmap fonts for example, > you could go to /etc/X11 and create fontpath.d and then here are some > ln commands: > ln -s /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi xorg-x11-75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 > ... This should be taken care of by the setup itself. Not by the end user. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Wednesday, October 7, 2015 02:49:51 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
