Re: ImageMagick (display) unable to load font
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On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 01:09:54PM +0000, Curt wrote:
>
> Trying to run the 'display' command from ImageMagick without an argument
> gives the following "error" (the app does not open at all):
>
> curty@einstein:~$ display
> display.im6: unable to load font
> `-microsoft-verdana-*-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*': Resource temporarily
> unavailable @ error/xwindow.c/XBestFont/834.
ImageMagick uses X resources. So perhaps try setting it either in your
local ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources or in the system-global
/etc/X11/app-defaults/ImageMagick something like
ImageMagick: <your font spec>
Note: the "ImageMagick" at the start is just a (most probably wrong)
guess. You can find our which class the thing thinks it is by running
xprop and clicking on a window. The colon and TAB separator are important.
To find a suitable font, just run "xfontsel -print", select the font
you want by narrowing, when you quit xfontsel, it will print the
spec of the selected font to stdout.
Not a thorough recipe, but hopefully a help towards your journey :-)
regards
- -- t
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