Re: startx problems

[ktb <x.y.f@home.com>]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:19:25PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote:
> When I execute startx, it exits with the following:
> 
> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list!
> 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> My /etc/X11/XF86Config has the following line:
> 
> FontPath    "unix/:-1"
> 
> If I change it to
> 
> FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts"
> 
> the error goes away, but my fonts blow.  What do I need to do to correct
> this and get my fonts back to normal?
> 

You should have a similar section in /etc/X11/XF86Config

# See 'man XF86Config' for info on the format of this file
 
Section "Files"
   RgbPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic:unscaled"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
   FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection                                                    

kent

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