From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 6 06:57:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA16978 for current-outgoing; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 06:57:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA16962 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 06:57:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id PAA15084; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 15:51:05 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA12100; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 15:51:02 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id PAA07672; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 15:49:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610061349.PAA07672@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Java,Netscape, & AccelX To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 15:49:00 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: andrew@why.whine.com, flaq@synwork.com, mark@hi-fi.com, jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Jake Hamby at "Oct 5, 96 09:03:31 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jake Hamby wrote: > Note: If Java applets fail to display. Type this as root: > cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc > /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir > chmod 444 fonts.dir > And then exit and restart your X server. > > I tried that, and lo and behold, it worked! It seems that Netscape needs > particular font aliases that for some reason XFree86 didn't define > properly. mkfontdir doesn't define anything new unless someone has installed new fonts before. In the latter case however, the someone who has been installing them is also responsible for running mkfontdir afterwards. Aliases are kept in fonts.alias anyway, and are not affected by mkfontdir at all. All of this is kinda moot for people running font servers. (You gotta reload the fontserver after installing the fonts.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)