Jim,
Now that's a helpful set of information... :-)
> From: "Jim Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:09:12 -0700
>
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 does not exist but /etc/X11/XF86Config does
> exist and changes could be made to this file if one ignores the
> line in the file that says "VaX generated file"
As long as you don't rerun the X configuration stuff in SuSE, you will
be fine ignoring that line. If you are worried about it being
overwritten, make a backup copy after you've modified it.
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs does not exist but /etc/init.d/xfs does exist
> but the abiwordfont.txt file said to change two lines that do not exist in
> this file
> the only other xfs file I found was a binary file (executable)
/etc/init.d/xfs is the file you want. If those lines don't exist, it's
probably because SuSE likes to put everything in /etc/rc.config. Look
in there for xfs options:
cat /etc/rc.config | grep -i xfs
Look at the change that the abiwordfont.txt document is telling you to
make. It wants you to replace a '-1' argument with a '7100' argument
for the '-port' option to xfs. If you can find out where SuSE sticks
its xfs command-line options, you can make this modification.
Or, show us the /etc/init.d/xfs file and we'll tell you what to do with
it. If you choose this option, please also provide the relevant lines
from /etc/rc.config.
> Restarting the X font server as stated in the abiwordfont.txt file did not
> work i.e.
> service xfs stop
> service xfs start
> error msg was : service: command not found
The 'service' command is a Red Hat Thing(TM). You can just do the
following on SuSE:
/etc/init.d/xfs stop
/etc/init.d/xfs start
> I have even tried to copy the abifonts files to the a
> /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts directory
This does not match up with the strategy that the abiwordfont.txt
document takes. From the document:
> This problem results when the X font server can not serve up the fonts
> that AbiWord requires.
>
> The solution is to get the Xserver to communicate with the LTSP
> terminals through a TCP port so that LTSP terminal can connect to the
> X font server (xfs), and to set the X font server's path to find the
> AbiWord fonts.
This is only one solution. The other solution is to move the fonts like
you just did, and then leave xfs disabled and instead modify
/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/rc.setupx (and rc.setupx3) to build the local (to the
workstation) XF86Config file with the extra FontPath information. Look
for the section that lists the paths in which to search for fonts:
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection
and add your path so it looks like this:
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/"
EndSection
Now you've only had to modify two files and should get the same result.
This is "unclean", though, because you've now created two copies of
the Abiword fonts and created non-standard LTSP modifications (i.e.
outside of lts.conf). So, while it modifies fewer files, this solution
must be maintained from one LTSP release to the next.
If you ignore all of this about moving fonts around and instead just
take the advice about mapping the doc onto SuSE's way of doing things,
you'll be just fine.
Hope this helped.
Jason
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