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Date:      Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:05:40 +0200
From:      Marc Elser <melser@gmx.ch>
To:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   xorg-vfbserver 1.4, 1 - 'fixed' font problems (but font-alias installed)
Message-ID:  <46F3C1A4.7030304@gmx.ch>

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Hi,

I googled around in various news-groups everywhere but I can't get the 
packge xorg-vfbserver 1.4,1 to run. Basically the instructions say you 
can run it with:

sudo Xvfb :2 -screen 0 1024x768x24

But then it complains about:
---
error opening security policy file /usr/local/lib/xserver/SecurityPolicy
Could not init font path element /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, removing 
from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF, removing 
from list!

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
---

As I couldn't find the SecurityPolicy file anywhere on the server 
(because it was not installed by the port xorg-vfbserver, is this a 
bug?), I copied it from a gentoo box where it was installed correctly. 
So now my commandline now is:

sudo Xvfb :2 -screen 0 1024x768x24 -sp /usr/local/lib/X11/SecurityPolicy

with this I get rid of the SecurityPolicy problem but Xvfb still 
complains about this damn 'fixed' font

---
Could not init font path element /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, removing 
from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF, removing 
from list!

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
---

I also installed the x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps and the 
x11-fonts/font-alias packages but it didn't help.

a "pkg_info | grep -e 'xorg' -e 'x11' -e 'xfree'" shows:
font-xfree86-type1-1.0.0 X.Org XFree86 Type1 font
xorg-clients-6.9.0_3 X client programs and related files from X.Org
xorg-fonts-encodings-6.9.0_1 X.Org font encoding files
xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-7.3 X.Org miscellaneous bitmap fonts
xorg-fonts-truetype-6.9.0 X.Org TrueType fonts
xorg-fonts-type1-7.3 X.Org Type1 fonts
xorg-libraries-6.9.0 X11 libraries and headers from X.Org
xorg-vfbserver-1.4,1 X virtual framebuffer server from X.Org

Can anybody please tell me how I get the Xvfb running without the 
font-server? In fact I don't need any font, all I want to do is run 
openoffice in listening mode but openoffice requires an X Server and I 
don't want to install fhe a full X Server.

But I'm really out of ideas which packages is still missing?

Thanks for any help

Marc



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