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How do fonts work when you have no font packages installed?
- From: Michael DePaulo <mikedep333 at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 03:16:16 -0400
- Subject: How do fonts work when you have no font packages installed?
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Hi,
I just installed cygwin64 with only the base packages, "xorg-server",
and its dependencies installed.
The FAQ (2014-04-29) states:
3.5. My favourite font has gone! The font Emacs uses is just boxes
Only minimal fonts will be installed after the upgrade.
However, on my system, /usr/share/fonts/ is empty.
Yet I am able to XDMCP into a GNOME2 CentOS 6.5 machine and all the
fonts show up fine with the handful of apps I tested.
Can someone explain how text is being rendered? Is Cygwin Xwin using
fonts from the Windows OS? Are the fonts being rendered client-side via XRender?
Thanks in advance,
-Mike
mike@executor /usr
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.3 executor 1.7.30(0.272/5/3) 2014-05-23 10:36 x86_64 Cygwin
mike@executor /usr
$ find . | grep fonts
./share/doc/groff-1.22.2/examples/hdtbl/fonts_n.ps
./share/doc/groff-1.22.2/examples/hdtbl/fonts_n.roff
./share/doc/groff-1.22.2/examples/hdtbl/fonts_x.ps
./share/doc/groff-1.22.2/examples/hdtbl/fonts_x.roff
mike@executor /usr
$ cd share
mike@executor /usr/share
$ ls
awk file icons locale man p11-kit pki terminfo texmf zoneinfo
doc groff info magic misc pkgconfig tabset texinfo X11
mike@executor /usr/share
$ X -query galactica
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