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setx cannot append network font path?
- From: "Phillips, James R" <james dot phillips at honeywell dot com>
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:42:30 -0700
- Subject: setx cannot append network font path?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
After starting xwin with "startx &", using a customized .xinitrc to start icewm, I am unable to append a network font
path using the xset command, as in
xset fp+ tcp/server_name:server_port
This hangs the x server, and requires me to kill it using alt-F-4.
On the other hand, if I start the server with
startx -- -fp tcp/server_name:serverport &
the server does start without hanging, and appears to use the network font server successfully.
There doesn't seem to be a way to append to the font path using startx, because extra arguments eventually get passed to
xwin, which only allows a complete specification of the font path, rather than allowing prepends, appends, deletes, etc
as in xset. So the apparent bug in xset seems to be a roadblock to what I want to accomplish.