Re: startx hell

["David J. Kanter" <djkanter@nwu.edu>]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 05:24:49PM -0800, Guyren G Howe wrote:
> startx won't run. It gives me:
> 
> System: '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm
> -m us -em1 "The XKEBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: " -emp "? " -em1
> "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server keymap/xfree86
> compiled/xfree86.xkm'
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Me too, but I think I fixed it. Don't hold me to this: I wasn't able to get
xdm to work after upgrading my X packages. I fooled around with the
xfree config file and now all is well.

I use xfstt, and that's where my problem seemed to be. This is how I changed
the xfree config file to get everything sailing smoothly again:

Section "Files"
   RgbPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
   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/75dpi/"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
   FontPath   "inet/127.0.0.1:7101"
EndSection

Don't ask me why this works better (as opposed to a long string of FontPath
variables) but it does.
-- 
David J. Kanter
djkanter@nwu.edu