Re: [Fonts]Could not init Fonts'Fixed

2003-01-01 Thread James Richard Tyrer
Danika Rodriguez wrote: I recently installed the nvidia 3123 drivers under Red Hat 8.0 and could not startX because of error: Could not init font'fix. Anyone know how to fix this error. I am losing patience Probably the font: fixed. Normally this font is in: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/

[Fonts] fc-cache and gzipped bit mapped fonts

2003-01-05 Thread James Richard Tyrer
After I installed FCPackage-2.1, I think that as I had read elsewhere that: fc-cache failed to recognize gzipped PCF fonts. When I ran it yesterday after adding additional Type 1 fonts to my: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ directory and it found all of the: *.pcf.gz font files in the

Re: [Fonts] where to include ~/.fonts.conf (was: fontconfig aliasquestion)

2003-01-19 Thread James Richard Tyrer
Mike FABIAN wrote: I wonder where in /etc/fonts.fonts.conf exactly is the best place to put the include statement for ~/.fonts.conf. It cannot be at the very end of /etc/fonts/fonts.conf because then the following would not work: Put it at the end of the list starting with:

Re: [Fonts] fonts problem after 4.3 update

2003-03-16 Thread James Richard Tyrer
Michael Felsberg wrote: Hi, I updated to XFree 4.3 and have some trouble with the fonts: problem: fc-cache hangs in the cyrillic font-dir solution: I removed the cyrillic fonts (don't need them) problem: the text in certain widget sets does not show up, instead the buttons become _very_ wide

Re: [Fonts] can't open default font 'fixed'

2003-03-31 Thread James Richard Tyrer
kenneth campbell wrote: Hello, I have been running xwindows on 7.2 RH for some time. Today upon startx I received error 104-can't open default font 'fixed'. Any advice...thanks in advance. Are the attached the characters you need: UTF8 encoding. They are in Arial Unicode, ClearlyU,

Re: [Fonts] Strange problem with core fonts and LCD display

2003-06-15 Thread James Richard Tyrer
Leandro Gelasi wrote: Hi to all, I spent all the last week in solving font problem on my new workstation (HP XW4000). My configuration: - Linux Slackware 9.0 - XFree 4.3.0 - KDE 3.1.1a - Matrox MGA 550 - LCD monitor Philip 150S3h After many tries I got a decent configuration for True Type

[Fonts] Fontmap fiiles PostScript font names

2004-03-31 Thread James Richard Tyrer
Have we considered that the: fonts.cache-n files should contain the PostScript font names? This appears to be a needed step towards eliminating the need for a: Fontmap file in each font directory. Or, perhaps this should be added to FreeType2 or Xft[2]. But, in any case, stuff would run

[Fonts] Non Latin font names.

2004-10-16 Thread James Richard Tyrer
Another issue from the KDE support lists. Does FontConfig deal correctly with non-Latin font names. The example posted is: http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/ The first font on the list is non-Latin. The encoding is gb2312. In Hex it is: eb ee ec e5. How does FontConfig handle such a font name.