[lug] X FontPaths

John Starkey jstarkey at advancecreations.com
Wed Jan 31 13:35:53 MST 2001


Yeah. It's listing the dir.

Thanks,

John

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Bonnell, Doug wrote:

> Have you tried chkfontpath?
> 
> Doug
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	John Starkey [SMTP:jstarkey at advancecreations.com]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, January 31, 2001 1:01 PM
> > To:	lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > Subject:	[lug] X FontPaths
> > 
> > Hello All.
> > 
> > I'm on attempt number 3 at setting up X. I've had it running, and like it,
> > but I just can't get it to jive with my work. Now it's been a while and I
> > can't get the FontPath working.
> > 
> > When starting X it's dieing with a message "failed to set default
> > font path 'unix/:-1'"
> > 
> > This doesn't look like a path to me :} Can anyone tell me what it
> > means? 
> > 
> > Then the next problem. I've changed the font path to a dir,
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts and it's not changing the above value. I renamed
> > all but one XF86Config (/etc/X11/XF86Config) and did a locate which isn't
> > returning any other copies. Yet the font path isn't changing. Anyone know
> > what else could be feeding the 'unix/:-1' value to X?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > John 
> > 
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