Re: Dumb question about fonts

[Andrew Gaylard]

Atwood, Robert C wrote:

>If I figure out how to fix it, i will certainly share the fix. 
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Thanks!

>I believe the user's problem is two-fold: this bug causing changes in
>preferred font size to be forgotten, and some problem with the
>configuration on his cygwin/X workstation so that the default always
>comes out really tiny. I suggested that he reinstall the X or mabye
>erase and reinstall the whole Cygwin (doesn't take that long) so
>hopefully the default size that it keeps reverting to will be a readable
>size in the meantime. (the ddd is not running on the cygwin, just the X
>client used to display the interface. I understand this gets fonts from
>the workstation's font library  not the server's? )
>
>--Robert
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Yes, I concur.  The second part of the problem does indeed
look like a misconfiguration problem on the X-server, in this
case Cygwin/X.