tph@cs.utexas.edu (Pow-Hwee Tan) (11/16/90)
Greetings, I just got my NeXT from the businessland deal, and copied off XNeXT off a machine onto a /XNeXT directory on the optical disk. However, I am having trouble getting it to work. Firstly, I type Xinstall to set up the symbolic links, and then use XNeXT -su -sb as described in the README file to start the server. A X Server window did pop up, but with one error "Could not find font Fixed". Am I missing something here? Next, I try uwm& from a terminal window. This where the major problem is. I get a XIO error...broken pipe etc, in short, uwm didn't run and the X Server window also closed an exited. Any help or pointers to help docs will be appreciated. Thanks. -- ph tan tph@cs.utexas.edu, UT Austin, CS Dept
doug@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Douglas A. Scott) (11/16/90)
In article <205@qt.cs.utexas.edu> tph@cs.utexas.edu (Pow-Hwee Tan) writes: >Firstly, I type Xinstall to set up the symbolic links, and then use >XNeXT -su -sb as described in the README file to start the server. >A X Server window did pop up, but with one error "Could not find font >Fixed". Am I missing something here? This is likely due to your .Xdefaults file (you have one?) which specifies what fonts each X application will use. There must be an entry for a font "Fixed" (is it capitalized in the error msg?). Most standard X systems have a "fixed" font...but I notice that XNeXT does not come with it. Remove all references to that font, and change them to something like "9x15". >Next, I try uwm& from a terminal window. This where the major problem >is. I get a XIO error...broken pipe etc, in short, uwm didn't run and >the X Server window also closed an exited. My uwm does not work either. I have seen many reports about this, but no fixes. Use twm. Several brand-new servers are scheduled to be released in the not-too- distant future. I would suggest just getting along with XNeXT for the time being. ------ Douglas Scott zardoz!doug%woof.columbia.edu -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Douglas Scott doug@dept.csci.unt.edu