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RE: Error with xvfb fonts path
- To: "'Philippe Le Bihan'" <Philippe dot Le-Bihan at evidian dot com>, <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: Error with xvfb fonts path
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:08:35 -0500
How about mounting your other directory to /usr/X11R6?
or using xfs server.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philippe Le Bihan [mailto:Philippe.Le-Bihan@evidian.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 9:44 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Error with xvfb fonts path
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have downloaded xfree86-4.0-Xvfb.tar.bz2 along with
> everything it takes to work. And indeed, everything works
> properly when installed right in [DRIVE:]/usr/X11R6...
>
> The problem is that I HAVE to install it in another
> directory. And then xvfb fails because it does not find
> needed fonts, even when I start it with "-fp" command line
> option.
>
> Am I misunderstanding something about this option?
> Does anybody knows of a way to do this ? (recompile
> with another RootDir is not an option, because
> installation directory will vary from one system to
> another).
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> --
> Philippe LE BIHAN
> mailto:Philippe.Le-Bihan@evidian.com
> tel:(33-1) 01 30 80 34 11 int. 23-73411
> --
>
> Here is the output I get (Dir1, Dir2, Dir3 are something
> like e:/My/Install/Dir/usr/X11R6/lib/... Fonts dirs are
> installed in Dir3)
>
> Command1: xvfb -co [Dir1]/rgb -sp [Dir2]/SecPol -ac :40
> ...
> PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX/,
> removing from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,
> removing from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,
> removing from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,
> removing from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,
> removing from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,
> removing from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,
> removing from list!
>
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> Command2: xvfb -co [Dir1]/rgb -sp [Dir2]/SecPol -ac :40 -fp
> [Dir3]/PEX/,[Dir3]/100dpi/,[Dir3]/75dpi/,[Dir3]/CID/,[Dir3]/Sp
> eedo/,[Dir3]/Type1/,[Dir3]/misc/
> ...
> PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
> Could not init font path element [Dir3]/PEX/, removing from list!
> Could not init font path element [Dir3]/100dpi/, removing from list!
> Could not init font path element [Dir3]/75dpi/, removing from list!
> Could not init font path element [Dir3]/CID/, removing from list!
> Could not init font path element [Dir3]/Speedo/, removing from list!
> Could not init font path element [Dir3]/Type1/, removing from list!
> Could not init font path element [Dir3]/misc/, removing from list!
>
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>