From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 1 14:18:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE33437B400 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:18:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dc-mx08.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx08.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C267643E72 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:18:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phbrown@charter.net) Received: from [66.214.75.207] (HELO charter.net) by dc-mx08.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP id 72300603 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 01 Aug 2002 17:18:36 -0400 Message-ID: <3D49A5AB.50A4337B@charter.net> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 14:18:35 -0700 From: Parker Brown X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: BSDQuestions Subject: [Fwd: startx refuses to open *some* font files] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------9EDD57BA63969AB3765672F0" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------9EDD57BA63969AB3765672F0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------FA84A144B2B0D28B306C25C5" --------------FA84A144B2B0D28B306C25C5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- Pb --------------FA84A144B2B0D28B306C25C5 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit   
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  --------------FA84A144B2B0D28B306C25C5-- --------------9EDD57BA63969AB3765672F0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Message-ID: <3D499DA2.4E6F9EE5@charter.net> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 13:44:18 -0700 From: Parker Brown X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: BSDQuestions Subject: startx refuses to open *some* font files Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------4588BB264561D4D6D0C4CAF8" --------------4588BB264561D4D6D0C4CAF8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FreeBSD 4.6 with X11 v4. Trying to get some easily readable fonts on X11, particularly on netscape. I installed the urwfonts from x11-fonts ports, but got the unable to open display "" when I ran xset, so I edited /etc/X11/XF86Config to include an entry for .../fonts/URW. Still no apparent difference in appearance, but I noticed that startx pumps out messages like startx: could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW. The same messages appear regarding ../fonts/Type1 and ../fonts/Speedo. X11 has no problem with any other fonts listed in /etc/X11/XF86Config. All fonts listed in the config file have entries in /usr/X11R6/lib/x11/fonts, but apparently URW, Type1 and Speedo are "not welcome" to the tyrant X11. Haven't figured out xdm yet, so I installed a "wrapper" and use startx. Can anybody help me figure this one out? I've gone about as far as I can with this one. -- Pb --------------4588BB264561D4D6D0C4CAF8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FreeBSD 4.6 with X11 v4.  Trying to get some easily readable fonts on
X11,  particularly on netscape.  I installed the urwfonts from x11-fonts
ports, but got the     unable to open display ""   when I ran xset, so I
edited /etc/X11/XF86Config to include an entry for .../fonts/URW.  Still
no apparent difference in appearance, but I noticed that startx pumps
out messages like     startx:  could not init font path element
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW.   The same messages appear regarding
../fonts/Type1  and ../fonts/Speedo.

X11 has no problem with any other fonts listed in  /etc/X11/XF86Config.
All fonts listed in the config file have entries in
/usr/X11R6/lib/x11/fonts,  but apparently URW, Type1 and Speedo are
"not welcome" to the tyrant X11.

Haven't figured out xdm yet, so I installed a "wrapper" and use startx.

Can anybody help me figure this one out?  I've gone about as far as I can
with this one.
  

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