I have been so *stupid*. Sheesh. I forgot to check whether I could
startx as another user than root. (Meanwhile I rpm -Uhv --force'd my
entire XFree86 distribution, and reran XF86Setup as well, have rebuilt
X font databases, and whatnot). Of course I could, so it must have
been some crappy .x* or .X* file in root. It was an automagically
generated .xinitrc. Evil, evil, evil. After I killed it, I could
startx allright, and proceed with further russification. (The probability
anybody else will run into the same gotcha is zilch, but anyway, here
it is so the archive will get it).
Anyway, I toyed around with /etc/XF86Config, and I ended up with the
following configuration which seems to work. (Has also the side effect that
my XEmacs fonts has grown a tad more readable ;)
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/75dpi:unscaled"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/75dpi"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
EndSection
ciao,
'gene
Eugene Leitl writes:
>
> In an attempt to russify my XFree86 I managed to screw up the font path so
> I can't even websearch for a fix, thus I'd appreciate some comments.
>
> Here's what I did:
>
> applying RatHed's Cyrillic-HOWTO, I created a .xsession with the
> following:
>
> xset +fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic
> xset fp rehash
>
> then startx'd. It didn't work, so I renamed .xsession to some
> inconspicuous value, and startx'd again. It bailed out again with the
> following massage:
>
> [gargargargar]
> (**) FontPath set to
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, <-- lines broken for your convenience
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> [gargargargar]
> (--) S3: Local bus LAW is 0xE00xxxxx
> (--) S3: Using a banksize of 4096k, line width of 1024
> PEX extension module not loaded
> XIE extension module not loaded
> xset: bad font path element (#37), possible causes are:
> Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> Directory missing fonts.dir
> Incorrect font server address or syntax
>
> waiting for X server to shut down
>
> Whafuck? Have I scrogged up some X font database? Any ideas?
>
> ciao,
> 'gene
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