Re: WIndows version compared with Linux

[Alexander <RittervomNie web de>]

Chris Green schrieb:
> I didn't think dia used the X fonts but maybe it does.

Did you find any font files in dia installation :-)?

> I'm not sure how to install new fonts on Slackware, that's my basic
> problem.  "man -k font" doesn't produce anything useful that I can
> see.

man pages are command line related, only a few pages refer to graphical 
things. Try

http://jmccoy.sdf-us.org/slackware10/config/fonts/fonts.php

or run "font +slackware" in google :-) (83.400 results)

> I run my Linux desktop on an X server on my Windows system (cygwin/X)
> but only the Linux box's fonts seem to be available to dia.

That's for sure. The X-Server runs on Linux Box and renders the 
information to the X-Client on Windows. So nothing is known about 
Windows' fonts to X-Server.