Re: X troubles
John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Several strange X things.
>
> First:
>
> $ xterm &
> [1] 3714
> $ Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
> Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default
> Failed to open input method
The problems are some locales. They get removed somewhere during the
build or something similar. There was a message somewhere on this
list.
You can grab a copy of the locale directory of another computer and
just put it in the same place on the alpha. Its a bit dirty, but it
seems to work well. (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale...)
> Second is relating to fonts. What's strange is that if I run one of
> the programs I'll talk about below on a remote machine, with DISPLAY
> set to my Alpha, they'll work fine. If I run them on the Alpha,
> they'll crash. I've got all the latest X packages from binary-alpha,
> plus the 6.1 packages from Incoming.
The locales somehow also crash the fonts. With the locales all
complains about not finding a fontset or locale are gone.
> The problem is that some programs just cannot for the life of them
> seem to find their fonts. I've got all the xfonts-* packages
> installed, and made sure mkfontdir got run.
> The trouble is that some programs have font troubles, some do not.
> xfontsel, for instance, works fine. FreeCiv is one with troubles. I
xfontsel should scream about not finding any useable fontset but still
work. After cloneing the locales, that warning is gone too.
> tried recompiling with -O only, no fix. Tk programs seem to work
> fine. Most programs are OK. wmaker refuses to start, complaining
> that it can't find various helvetica fonts that xfontsel can find.
> freeciv dumps core after complaining about being unable to load a
> fontset. One program couldn't find "fixed". Ideas?
May the Source be with you.
Mrvn
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