From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon Mar 15 18:50:12 2010 Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:47:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim DeClercq To: Paul Wratt cc: mint Subject: Re: [MiNT] X-window problem In-Reply-To: <11a6f2b11003142249r4bcaf8bbu8312b47d394332a0@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <11a6f2b11003142249r4bcaf8bbu8312b47d394332a0@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: jimd@panix.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Hello, That is a very complete list, but where does it go? What I found is /etc/X11/fs/config And what is in it is: #where to look for fonts # catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, Which starts a comma separated, space terminated list of possible font paths, which so far has been ignored by x-windows. I am using the EasyMiNT distribution. Somehow, we are not communicating. Thanks, Jim -- /"\ Jim DeClercq--jimd@panix.com--Sylvania, Ohio, USA \ / ASCII ribbon campaign | I'm a .signature virus! | X against HTML mail | Copy me into your ~/.signature| / \ and postings | to help me spread! | . On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Paul Wratt wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Jim DeClercq wrote: >> Hello, all >> >> Trying to get x-windows back the way I had it, and got stuck. >> >> In the mean time, I got a copy of Papyrus, which uses bitstream speedo >> fonts, and put those in BTFONTS on my boot drive. >> >> Then, x-windows found only those BTFONTS, and ignored GEMSYS. So I moved >> BTFONTS to another partition, and changed font paths in Papyrus, and >> x-windows then found only system fonts. >> >> There is an empty man page on setting font paths, and an obscure note at the >> bottom of the xfontsel man page that a file called &XFILESEARCHPATH\xfontsel >> was somehow involved. >> >> I tried it as a setenv string with a path on the end, and nothing new >> happened. >> >> How do I get all the fonts in GEMSYS and BTFONTS listed in available fonts, >> so I can use my old font.alias file? >> >> Jim >> > The quickest way around this should be to make sure that both the > GEMSYS path and the BTFONTS path are in you X11 .config file. Here is > an example: > > Section "Files" > # FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" > FontPath "/etc/X11/fonts/misc" > FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID" > FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/type1" > FontPath "/etc/X11/fonts/Type1" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" > FontPath "/etc/X11/fonts/Speedo" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" > FontPath "/etc/X11/fonts/75dpi" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" > FontPath "/etc/X11/fonts/100dpi" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" > FontPath "/etc/X11/fonts/cyrillic" > EndSection > > This does not solve the problem of being able to use both fonts from > TOS/GEM, just for X.. > > > Paul > > >