On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:16:19AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Pierre Labastie wrote: > > On 25/01/2017 10:25, Pierre Labastie wrote: > > > On 25/01/2017 05:37, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > > I just finished a new install of Xorg using the current instructions in > > > > the > > > > book. Unfortunately I get several warnings about fonts. In Xorg.0.log > > > > I have: > > > > > > > > (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in > > > > "/opt/xorg/share/fonts/X11/misc/". > > > > (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in > > > > "/opt/xorg/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/" > > > > (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in > > > > "/opt/xorg/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/" > > > > > > > > The instructions we have creates these directories with fonts.alias as > > > > the > > > > only file in each one. > > > > > > > > These warnings can be fixed by running mkfontdir on the directories. > > > >
Jings, crivens, help ma boab - and I haven't even started to toast the immortal memory yet ;) You will recall that _I_ am used to seeing a lot of warnings in Xorg.log on _my_ machines, and that I ignore them unless there seems to be a problem (I vaguely recall that I looked at some either early last year, or in late 2015, because of problems - probably in kde - on one machine). If you want to add an instruction to optionally run that command, I have no objection. > > > > Perhaps a bit more of an issue is that tty1 gets a ton of warnings when > > > > running twm (with xterm+xclock): > > > > > > > > Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion > > > > twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-5 is lacking. > > > > twm: warning: font for charset KOI8-R is lacking. > > > > twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-7 is lacking. > > > > twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-13 is lacking. > > > > twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-14 is lacking. > > > > twm: warning: font for charset JISX0208.1983-0 is lacking. > > > > twm: warning: font for charset KSC5601.1987-0 is lacking. > > > > twm: warning: font for charset GB2312.1980-0 is lacking. > > > > twm: warning: font for charset JISX0201.1976-0 is lacking. > > > > twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-5 is lacking. > > > > twm: warning: font for charset KOI8-R is lacking. > > > > twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-7 is lacking. > > > > twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-13 is lacking. > > > > > > > > and a lot more totaling about 55 lines. > > > > Whenever I use startx, even in a minimal build, I don't think that there is anything useful on tty1 when I get back to it. Certainly, I have to tee the output from startx, and stderr, to a file if I want to examine it because of breakage. But then I have quite a lot in my ~/.xinitrc. > > > > I realize that these warning do not cause a functional problem, but > > > > many users > > > > will be concerned. Perhaps we should put back some the the fonts > > > > recently > > > > removed. I haven't tested it yet, but perhaps we need to add: s/many users/some users/ ? > > > > > > > > font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.3.tar.bz2 > > > > font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.3.tar.bz2 I repeat that you don't need both sizes. > > > > font-misc-misc-1.1.2.tar.bz2 If you are using unicode, why would you want legacy encodings such as the many varieties of ISO 8859, and KOI8R ? Many people do NOT need *any* of the old fonts. > > > > I think installing dejavu fonts > > > allowed to remove the warnings. > > > > > Forget that: this is not true ! Just a note about the warning: the same > > lines (from ... ISO8859-5 ... to ... JISX0201.1976-0...) > > are repeated 6 times... > > Moving to blfs-dev. Posting to lfs-dev was a typo on my part. Please > remove lfs-dev when replying. > > -- Bruce > So, when I did my testing for this http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2016-November/032705.html I did not notice any problems on the desktop relating to missing fonts, other than the possible use in xscreensaver and the requirement by old xorg-server for tigervnc. In general I do not care about what gets written to stderr by desktop programs, unless it is written to a term (e.g. when starting a prog from a term because of problems, or when running fc-list etc. ĸen -- `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for them.' -- Small Gods -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
