From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 9 23:37:21 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 3E95737B439 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 23:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage.thought.org (sense-kline-248.oz.net [216.39.168.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A3443E3B for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 23:37:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (tao [216.39.168.250]) by sage.thought.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g8A6bBI10368; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 23:37:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g8A6cx750069; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 23:38:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 23:38:59 -0700 From: Gary D Kline To: Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: Gary D Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: AbiWord? Message-ID: <20020910063859.GA49927@tao.thought.org> References: <200209100540.g8A5eXx49497@tao.thought.org> <1031636537.342.142.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <20020910061731.GA49794@tao.thought.org> <1031639238.342.150.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1031639238.342.150.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 16 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 02:27:18AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 02:17, Gary D Kline wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 01:42:17AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 01:40, Gary D Kline wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Gang, > > > > > > > > The other day I build the latest AbiWord; it compiles but gives me a > > > > can't-find-AbiWord-fonts err. i've modified /etc/XF86Config, and > > > > followed the instructions in the problem html file. Evidently not > > > > well enough. Any ideas? > > > > > > Are you running AbiWord across a remote X display? What do you have for > > > XF86Config? What version of FreeBSD is this? What version of X? > > > > > > > Ah! yes, I am. I have WP and AbiWord on my print server. > > I'm running X11-4.x on FBSD 4.3. I just upgraded to the > > newest /etc/XF86Config. No joy.... > > > > Clues? > > Yeah, you can't run AbiWord across a remote X display unless you copy > the fonts to the remote server. This is all documented in the > pkg-message for AbiWord. It should have been displayed right after you > installed it. In case you missed it, it's > /usr/ports/editors/AbiWord/pkg-message. > > If you've already done this, then I'm not sure why it doesn't work. > Admittedly, I don't run AbiWord on remote X displays. > That was what was unclear. So if I scp my /usr/local/share/AbiSource/font/* directory to this platform, things should work, yes? gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message