Re: ImageMagick (display) unable to load font

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 03:54:26PM +0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2016-03-02, <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> If I had window.  As I said, the app does not open at all.  No window to
> click on. This is why I'm mentioning the message at all. If the
> application opened and ran correctly I wouldn't be mentioning a little
> message here. I only care about it because it seems related to a failure
> of the application to run whatsoever. 

To slowly crawl near, try

  display -font '-b&h-*-*-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'

(I'm assuming you've got some b&h fonts, like lucida -- otherwise use
a font spec of an existing font; in a pinch, make sure you have the
program xfontsel and you can do:

  display -font $(xfontsel -print)

then select one suitable font, click "select" then "quit")

regards
- -- tomás
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