duc@cos.com (Duc Kim Nguyen) (02/18/89)
I have a problem in starting up X on my Sun, knowing very little about
X windows I created the following files:
.Xresources (and .Xdefaults)
.xinitrc
then I tried
% xinit -geometry 80x34+0+0 -display "${host}:0.0" -fn screen11 -w 2 -sb -sl 1000 -n login
and got the following errors:
# start error
main: Could not open default font 'fixed'
main: Could not open default cursor font 'cursor'
X Error: font or color name does not exist
Request Major code 45
Request Minor code
ResourceID 0x200003
Error Serial #17
Current Serial #19
waiting for server to terminate
# end error
I checked fonts directory and screen11.snf is in local directory.
What is going on ?
Thank for all your assistance.
duc@COS.COM
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main: Could not open default font 'fixed'
main: Could not open default cursor font 'cursor'
Your server doesn't have a reasonable font path. Did you forget to
install fonts into /usr/lib/X11/fonts?dana@dino.bellcore.com (Dana A. Chee) (02/21/89)
In article <15202@cos.com> duc@cos.com (Duc Kim Nguyen) writes:
.Xresources (and .Xdefaults)
.xinitrc
then I tried
% xinit -geometry 80x34+0+0 -display "${host}:0.0" -fn screen11 -w 2 -sb -sl 1000 -n login
and got the following errors:
# start error
main: Could not open default font 'fixed'
main: Could not open default cursor font 'cursor'
X Error: font or color name does not exist
Request Major code 45
Request Minor code
ResourceID 0x200003
Error Serial #17
Current Serial #19
waiting for server to terminate
# end error
I checked fonts directory and screen11.snf is in local directory.
What is going on ?
What's happening is that the server isn't finding the fonts in the
expected (compiled in) location. If you edited nothing, it will look
in (I believe, since our's is changed) /usr/lib/Xlib/fonts/??, but this
can be checked by:
strings -a Xsun | grep fonts
If that is set up, then you have to make sure that the fonts.dir files
in each font directory contain all fonts that you wish to use. For
example, the local font directory containing screen11.snf should have
an entry in its fonts.dir file specifying
screen11.snf screen11
Thank for all your assistance.
duc@COS.COM
You're welcome. Send mail if you have more troubles.
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