Re: Newbie Setting up Fonts Server in X Windows
"Gnoh, Chee Seng" <csgnoh@singwnt.sing.ingr.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed Debian 1.3 and X Window on my machine. I tried
> running AfterStep but it complained about some fonts (Adobe-Helvetica
> ...) not found. I encountered the same font problem with other apps as
> well. I used xinit to start.
> Please correct me if I am wrong, but I understand that I need to
> setup xfs in order for these apps to be able to get hold of their fonts.
> I have installed xserver_s3, xbasefnt, xbase and couple of other font
> packages 100dpi, cyrillic and scalable.
No; you don't need to configure xfs, and in fact I've found it much
easier to do without it. All you need to do is add some directories
to the X server's font path.
There are two ways to do this, at least; I'm only certain about the
second method.
Method 1) re-run XF86Setup; this requires the xserver-vga16 to be
installed.
Method 2) As root, edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config. Add new
FontPath lines to the section "Files"; for example, my
/etc/X11/XF86Config has the following:
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi-il2"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi-il2"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ETL"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/maru"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc-il2"
EndSection
This is much more than most people will need; I happen to have lots of
fonts installed. To find out which lines you should add, do:
ls /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
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