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Re: Debian and X fonts



Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 03/08/07 17:01, Matej Kosik wrote:
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> On 03/08/07 04:01, Matej Kosik wrote:
>>>> Friends,
>>>> I am using Debian GNU/Linux Sid.
>>>> When I start `xmms' I get
>>>> 	** WARNING **: Failed to open font: "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*".
>>>> Similarly, when I start `gv' I get
>>>> 	Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>>>> 	Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>>>> 	Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-100-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>>>> 	Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>>>> Can you please recommend me some reading about fonts in Xorg? How
>>>> can I find mappings from those X font names to some real files? 
>>>> (so that I will know which package I am missing or perhaps what
>>>> to install)?
>>> What TTF fonts do you have installed?
>> The list of TTF fonts given by
> 
>>   find / -type f -name "*.ttf" -or -name "*.TTF"|tee ~/tmp/out
> 
>> is
> 
>>   http://altair.dcs.elf.stuba.sk/~kosik/tmp/fonts.txt
> 
> Hmmm, not encouraging.
> 
> How about: COLUMNS=130 dpkg -l | grep ttf

I have myself spoiled the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
(while I was playing with it to make dualhead and monitor cloning features working)
The paths were wrong. Now everything works again.

Thanks for the help.
-- 
Matej Kosik

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