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Bug#34363: marked as done (xnest: cannot start if not using a font server and one of the hard-coded font path elements is unusable)

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Package: xnest
Version: 3.3.2.3a-11
(probably all other versions as well)

Xnest has a built-in fontpath which specifies the following
places to look for fonts in:

  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/
  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/

If one of these directories doesn't exist, or is missing
fonts.dir and (probably) fonts.scale files, Xnest
won't start. An error is displayed saying that Xnest
failed to set the font path and that the 'fixed' font
was not found.

You can, however, override the default font path by
using the -fp option.

I don't know how to tackle this problem; but at least the
the following packages should be listed as 'recommended'
by xnest:

  xfonts-scalable (Speedo, Type1 directories)
  xfonts-base (misc directory)
  xfonts-75dpi (75dpi directory)
  xfonts-100dpi (100dpi directory)

Oskar Liljeblad (osk@hem.passagen.se)

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Hi,
The code to deal with this is all in the DIX, which allows
initialisation of single font paths to fail on startup.  So I claim this
bug is now fixed.

Cheers,
Daniel

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