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Re: font problem
- From: Brian Genisio <briangenisio at yahoo dot com>
- To: Heiko Nardmann <h dot nardmann at secunet dot de>, cygwin-xfree at xfree dot cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 04:46:16 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: font problem
By default, the X server uses a bunch of font paths. They are all included in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts . Of those, I am not sure which are defaulted, but
misc contains the "fixed" font alias. Sooooo.... by overriding your font path,
you are clobbering the defaulted misc. I usually set misc, 75dpi and 100dpi in
my font path...
You have two options...
1. Add the font server to the font path :
-fp
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,tcp/10.151.4.13:7101
2. Add the font path AFTER the X server has started up, NOT overriding the font
path. Use xset for this. I am not completely sure of the syntax (take a look
at the manpage), but it is something like :
xset fp+ tcp/10.151.4.13:7101
xset fp rehash
Brian
--- Heiko Nardmann <h.nardmann@secunet.de> wrote:
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> Hi!
>
> I have a problem with a font inside KDE Konsole. Until end of last week I
> used Exceed as my primary X server. Then I switched to XFree86 (on Windows
> NT).
>
> I start it using XDMCP with the '-indirect' option to get the chooser menu
> from a Linux server.
>
> Inside the KDE Konsole the font provided by Exceed is fine but now a
> proportional font is used in XFree86.
>
> When I try to choose a better font from the "Custom..." menu I only see
> "Tahoma" being the only font offered.
>
> Probably I have to provide some more fonts to the X server?
>
> - From another mail I saw that it is possible to give some '-fp ...' to the
> XWin command line; so now I have the following inside startxwin.bat:
>
> start /B XWin.exe :1 -indirect 10.151.4.13 -from 10.151.4.101 -screen 0 1600
> 1200 -fullscreen -fp tcp/10.151.4.13:7101
>
> 10.151.4.13 is the linux server.
> 10.151.4.101 is my machine.
>
> On port 7101 xfstt is running. No xfs is running on the linux machine
> additionally.
>
> But then I get the following fatal error message:
>
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> Any idea how to fix this?
>
> - --
> Heiko Nardmann (Dipl.-Ing.), h.nardmann@secunet.de, Software Development
> secunet Security Networks AG - Sicherheit in Netzwerken (www.secunet.de),
> Weidenauer Str. 223-225, D-57076 Siegen
> Tel. : +49 271 48950-13, Fax : +49 271 48950-50
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