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From: Feiyi Wang  <fwang2@cobblers.csc.ncsu.edu>
To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: X fonts path problem 
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Hi, there

I have two questions related to X font path -

 1) how to check what is current x fonts search path?
 2) I try to add a fonts to it, error output as follows, what could be the
    problem?

thanks

/oliver

  bash2.0$ xset +fp $HOME/wenye/xfonts

  X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for 
  operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  51 (X_SetFontPath)
  Value in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  8
  Current serial number in output stream:  10