On 6/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 08:26:25AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> That's the core X font system at work.  It is lovely.
Oh good, I feared that I'd aske someone to look at my computer screen within X and 
have no text to read.  It doesn't matter to me what it looks like, longs there is 
something there for the sightlings.  <smile>  Although, I guess gnopernicus and 
orca will need a working font system.

Well, that is to say that that is the core X font system crashing X
(if that message about CID not being found is to be believed).  I
think after reading your earlier post, you're saying that X is working
but it gives the "can't find CID fonts" in the log.  If that is
correct, then don't worry about it.

> Section "Files"
>    ...
>    FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
>    FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
>    ...
> EndSection

I may just tidy it up.

As long is it's not crashing the X server, I wouldn't worry about
these too much.  If you're going to install Gnome, then it will use
Fontconfig and the pretty TrueType fonts.  The X fonts will basically
just sit there and collect cyber dust.

> Incidentally, are your fonts in /usr/lib/X11/fonts?
>
Yes, they are.  So all looks well.  Thanks.  I'm confident now that if I ask 
for help with reading the GUI, they'll be able to read the text to me.

Good to hear.  As long as you get output from `fc-list' that you can
find *some* font, then you can safely move on to GTK+/Gnome land and
forget all about the Core X Font system.

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Dan
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