In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know where the font package that contains Adobe Helvetica is?
>I used APT for getting blackbox's package from the frozen section. I also
>grabbed the xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-75dpi packages, along with the basic
>stuff (xfont-base etc etc) needed for running X.
Should be xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-75dpi, in the
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{75,100}dpi directories.
>When xdm loads it prompts me for user and password, then I enter it, screen
>flashes and prompts me for the password again (same screen). I couldnt get
>past this so I went back to the console (alt+ctrl+F1) and viewed
>/var/log/messages.
>
>messages tells me that it couldn't find this specific font when trying to
>load Blackbox, so it spits out the login prompt again in X.
Hmmm, so xdm can find <a font>, but BlockBox is having trouble?
Perhaps your BlackBox is broken... try using a different window
manager, just for a test (I'm not playing advocacy here!), to trim the
problem down.
Since xdm displays a login window (I presume), then your X server can
clearly find *some* fonts.
>So, I checked the /etc/X11/blackbox/Blackbox-config file and in the
>titleFont and menuFont sections it calls for the font listed in my first
>paragraph above:
>
>titleFont: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
>menuFont: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
These look fine, afaict....
Urrgh... I just tried starting an xterm with that font, and it looked
*awful*. Try substituting this:
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
I think the "120" is a slot too far to the right in the font
descriptor, but I can't say for sure.
>Thanks!
>
>- Brian
HTH
SRH
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