I've added all relevant font paths I could find in my hard disk and that worked! Thank you. Anup ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lemmit Kaplinski" <lemmit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 2:53 PM Subject: Re: could not open default font 'fixed' > Hi, > > trying to get two flies here > > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 11:38 -0700, Mattias Thorslund wrote: > > FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts" > > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts" > > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts" > > and Anup Shah wrote: > > FontPath "unix/:7100" > > in the first case: most likely the fixed font is in a subdirectory > of /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts. Maybe 75dpi or 100dpi. Look at all the subdirs > (and if this fails, all other places where you have fonts installed) and > scan the contents of fonts.dir file. This file contains the font names, > sizes and other such information for the files in the relevant > directory. Somewhere you should find information about the font "fixed". > Just add that directory to the list (FontPath "/some/directory") > > In the other case, X gets all of its fonts from a font server, which is > entirely different piece of software. It is most probably called xfs and > its config file should be somewhere in /etc/X11 - > maybe /etc/X11/xfs/xfs.conf or similar. The file syntax is a little bit > different, but the idea is the same - find the place on your hard disk, > where the fixed font actually is (/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ in teh case > of Debian) and add that directory to the list. > > Hope this helps, > > L. > > > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
