"Gnoh, Chee Seng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I recently installed Debian 1.3 and X Window on my machine. I tried > running AfterStep but it complained about some fonts (Adobe-Helvetica > ...) not found. I encountered the same font problem with other apps as > well. I used xinit to start. > Please correct me if I am wrong, but I understand that I need to > setup xfs in order for these apps to be able to get hold of their fonts. > I have installed xserver_s3, xbasefnt, xbase and couple of other font > packages 100dpi, cyrillic and scalable.
No; you don't need to configure xfs, and in fact I've found it much easier to do without it. All you need to do is add some directories to the X server's font path. There are two ways to do this, at least; I'm only certain about the second method. Method 1) re-run XF86Setup; this requires the xserver-vga16 to be installed. Method 2) As root, edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config. Add new FontPath lines to the section "Files"; for example, my /etc/X11/XF86Config has the following: Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" 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" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi-il2" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi-il2" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ETL" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/maru" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc-il2" EndSection This is much more than most people will need; I happen to have lots of fonts installed. To find out which lines you should add, do: ls /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
