Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 15:49:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: andrew@why.whine.com, flaq@synwork.com, mark@hi-fi.com, jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Subject: Re: Java,Netscape, & AccelX Message-ID: <199610061349.PAA07672@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.94.961005210018.25920A-100000@covina.lightside.com> from Jake Hamby at "Oct 5, 96 09:03:31 pm"
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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. ;-)
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