On 4/6/06, Johannes Lächele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. Fonts: > I can see the fancy new splash-screen for about 2 seconds before X.org > shuts down because it couldnt find any Fonts in > "<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>" which is the standard-dir > I can solve this problem with adding an extra font dir in the > fontconfig-file, adding some fonts I found: > "<dir>/usr/lib/X11/fonts</dir>"
Which book are you following? Must be SVN as that has GNOME-2.12. Looks like you either missed a couple commands or were unfortunate enough to install Xorg before the newer font information went in. To just get some fonts in /usr/share/fonts, make two symlinks (this info is now on the Xorg-7.0 page): ln -svn $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/fonts/OTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-OTF && ln -svn $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF where XORG_PREFIX obviously is /usr in your case. Now, get that <dir> out of /etc/fonts/fonts.conf! There's a lot of crappy fonts that you don't want fontconfig to use. Also, see the X Components page that has a lot of new info about installing TrueType fonts that fontconfig will use: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/xfree86-setup.html > 2. Error message at startup <snip> > A really odd thing is happening after starting X again: > I get a different error-msg saying that a panel is already running and > now being shut down. This would seem to be a result of X not exiting cleanly, i.e. gnome didn't have a chance to stop gnome-panel on its own. > This is what I tried so far: <snip> OK, let's back up a bit. Can you start a basic X session? If you don't have a .xinitrc file, startx will use the default xinitrc. This will start the horrendous twm window manager. (You need to have twm installed, but you should if you installed all the packages in Xorg). Try to start an X session with twm. If that works, then we know Xorg is working properly. To me, it seems like you have an issue with X since it's crashing before gnome can even start. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
