Re: fonts in X and everybuddy
Check the lists archives there are several discussions
of this, in particular one started by me on GTK fonts.
I did find that a a mix of XFree 3.x and 4.x packages
was the problem.
--- Ben Hartshorne <ben@hartshorne.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> Ever since my last reboot, the 'everybuddy'
> program has been
> misbehaving. It displays all messages sent to me as
> little dashed
> boxes. It displays all timestamps as little dashed
> boxes. It displays
> all text I send as normal text. I havn't noticed
> this behavior in any
> other program.
> I made many upgrades a while back. This most
> recent reboot may have
> been the first time the upgraded X server was
> started, I'm not sure.
> Before I start randomly upgrading more packages in
> hopes that it
> solves the problem, I'd like some confirmation of
> the right direction to
> go.
>
> First question to clear the air: do all xfree86*,
> xserver*, and
> xfonts* packages share a version numbering system
> (roughly)? In other
> words, does xfonts-75dpi v3.X necessarily go with
> xfree86 v3.X, which
> might be provided by xserver v3.X?
>
> Regardless of the answer to that one, does the mix
> of v3 and v4 of the
> following packages have anything to do with it?
> (pardon the long lines)
>
> green:~# dpkg -l xserver*
> ii xserver-common 4.0.3-4
> files and utilities common to all X servers
> ii xserver-svga 3.3.6-11potato32 X
> server for SVGA graphics cards
> ii xserver-vga16 3.3.6-11potato32 X
> server for VGA graphics cards
> ii xserver-xfree86 4.0.3-4
> the XFree86 X server
>
> green:~# dpkg -l xfont*
> rc xfonts-100dpi 4.0.3-4
> 100 dpi fonts for X
> ii xfonts-75dpi 4.1.0-5 75
> dpi fonts for X
> ii xfonts-base 4.0.3-4
> standard fonts for X
> rc xfonts-cjk 3.3.6-2
> basic Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts for X
> rc xfonts-cyrillic 4.0.3-4
> Cyrillic fonts for X
> ii xfonts-pex 3.3.6-2
> fonts for minimal PEX support in X
> rc xfonts-scalable 4.0.3-4
> scalable fonts for X
>
> How would I find out which of the xserver packages
> the program that's
> running my X display comes from?
> ben@green:~$ ps auwx
> <snipped>
> root 21662 17.8 13.4 18356 8560 ? S<
> Sep28 312:27 /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
>
> ben@green:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/X11/X
> dpkg: /usr/bin/X11/X not found.
>
> Is the xfonts-pex something I need? I don't think I
> have any
> 3d stuff on my machine. How would I find out if I
> have any packages
> that depend on a particular package?
>
> In general, xfonts-scalable something useful?
> (yeah, I know you don't
> know what I do with my machine -- general laptop.
> write papers in
> emacs, surf the web in netscape, read mail in an
> xterm, ... normal
> stuff.)
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> -ben
>
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