On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 09:33:15PM +0000, Hans Malissa via blfs-support wrote: > On Dec 03, 2018, at 01:41 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > That happened once to me because I had built xorg-server before installing the > font utilities. Because of that, Xorg couldn't find fonts that twm was > requesting, and twm could not start. I think you can still exit X, though, by > moving the mouse to the upper left window and typing Ctrl-D. Then you can > examine the terminal where you launched "startx" for any errors (note that > there may be a lot of warnings about fonts not found, if you have not > installed the legacy fonts, so that this part is useless). If my hypothesis is > correct, it should say something about helvetica fonts, as far as I remember. > Also look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to try to see what went wrong. > > If the fonts are not found, install them, and rebuild xorg-server. If anything > else, well, I guess we need more details... > > Ah, now I'm getting something: when I try to launch twm as you describe, I > get one font-related error message: > > twm: unable to open fontset > "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" > > I guess it's really that some fonts are missing. I still wonder where I went > wrong: in which section did we install this font? Xorg-legacy, the last section in the chapter. You only really need font-adobe-100dpi. If you have installed some TTF/OTF fonts, you could alternatively just try a different windowmanager - I normally use fluxbox to check everythings is working, for me twm is too old-school. ĸen -- I'm saving up 22 shillings and 10 pence (almost a pound!) per week to buy an ARM-13. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/11/brexit-means-brexit.html -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
