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  From: Andrew Galdes <AGaldes@elders.com.au>
  To  : David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:21:18 +0930

RE: font problem

Thanks David.


> 
> Andrew!
> 
> > Yes, fixed fonts, that sounds like it. any ideas to get that fixed?
> 
> Using a combination of vi/emacs and man XF86Config:
> 
> 1) Discover which /etc/X11/XF86Config??? is actually being run
>  - (under RedHat 7.1 it's /etc/X11/XF86Config-4)
>  - capture the output of startx using startx >& output.log 
> and look for
> where it reports which one it is using
> 
> 2) Find the fonts section
> 
> 3) Fix it
> 
> You'll want to look for the "how to specify font paths" section in the
> man pages. Essentially it's:
> 
> Section "Files"
>         FontPath "tcp/linux:7100"   
> 	FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
> 	FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
> EndSection
> 
> The first entry says speak to an XFS using tcp and port 7100. 
> The latter
> two represent actual physical font paths. I think the Unix Font Server
> locally is "unix/:0" but check that in the man pages. Fonts generally
> live in similar directries to the above. You could do a "locate
> fonts.dir" because each font directory must contain that file if you
> can't find them.
> 
> Of course, if you literally can't find them then that may be your
> problem. Reinstall them using rpm, tar xzvf, dpkg or whatever.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> DSL
> 

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