Bug#43723: xhextris fails on X terminal

[pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk]

Marisa Lohr wrote:
>When I try to run xhextris, I get this message:
>
>bash-2.01$ xhextris
>
>Welcome, marisal...
>X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for
>operation)
>  Major opcode of failed request:  51 (X_SetFontPath)
>  Value in failed request:  0x4
>  Serial number of failed request:  34
>  Current serial number in output stream:  42

I think this is a specific case of a general problem, which is that
xhextris won't work on a non-local X display. The game uses a special
font to draw the pieces. When you install the package it installs
the font, but this installs the font on the *client* when it ought
to be installed on the *server*. I think that in the general case
installing on the server is impossible, and the game really ought
to be rewritten to use normal X drawing requests rather than
playing silly games with fonts.

However, I'm not going to do this myself :->

Peter Maydell