[lug] X FontPaths

[Bonnell, Doug]

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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