[lug] X FontPaths

[John Starkey]

Thanks. Everything is pretty much identical but the clone-self part. I
switched mine to on. But recieved the same result.

John

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Kevin Moore wrote:

> I believe the: font path 'unix/:-1'" sets the port of your font server when
> you aren't going to serve them out to other machines(local), but I may be
> wrong. Here is the entry from my XF86Config after I slurped the Microsoft
> TrueType fonts from an NT box:
> 
> # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
> # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
> # the X server to render fonts.
> 
>       FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttype"
>       FontPath    "unix/:-1"
> 
> and here is my entry from  /etc/X11/fs/config:
> 
> #
> # Default font server configuration file for Red Hat Linux
> #
> 
> # allow a max of 10 clients to connect to this font server
> client-limit = 10
> 
> # when a font server reaches its limit, start up a new one
> clone-self = on
> 
> # alternate font servers for clients to use
> #alternate-servers = foo:7101,bar:7102
> 
> # where to look for fonts
> #
> catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
>         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
>         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
>         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
>         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
>         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
>         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,
>         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,
>         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttype,
>         /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType,
>         /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1,
>         /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/75dpi:unscaled,
>         /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/100dpi:unscaled,
>         /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/Type1,
>         /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/75dpi,
>         /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/100dpi,
>         /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/75dpi:unscaled,
>         /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/100dpi:unscaled,
>         /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/Type1,
>         /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/75dpi,
>         /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/100dpi,
>         /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/75dpi:unscaled,
>         /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/100dpi:unscaled,
>         /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/75dpi,
>         /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/100dpi
> 
> # in 12 points, decipoints
> default-point-size = 120
> 
> # 100 x 100 and 75 x 75
> default-resolutions = 75,75,100,100
> 
> # use lazy loading on 16 bit (usually Asian) fonts
> deferglyphs = 16
> 
> # how to log errors
> use-syslog = on
> 
> Here is a good howto on getting TrueType fonts to work with X, which make it
> look a lot better:
> 
> http://www.kegel.com/linux/tt.html
> 
> 
> Hope this helps.....Kevin
> 
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Starkey [mailto: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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