I�m using wmaker-gnome. Just now tried twm: no difference in behaviour. I�m not using xdm. I don�t get any error messages from startx though. No errors in .xsession-errors.
I first tried it with tetex-bin 0.9.981113-2 (the slink/stable
version), then got tetex-bin 0.9.990406-1 (from
potato/unstable): no difference.
/home/stefan> echo $DISPLAY $TERM $MFTERM
:0.0 rxvt rxvt
I�m focussing now on trying to make it run in a plain xterm,
with the unnecessary MFTERM (and COLORTERM, just to be paranoid)
unset:
/home/stefan> echo $TERM $DISPLAY
xterm :0.0
/home/stefan> mf
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3)
**\relax
*drawdot (20,20);
*showit;
mf: Window support for X was not compiled into this binary.
mf: To do so, rerun configure --with-x, recompile, and reinstall.
mf: (Or perhaps you just failed to specify the mode.)
*end
Transcript written on mfput.log.
/home/stefan>
Well, as I said, according to the source package's debian/rules,
mf _is_ compiled with x. My system is configured with texconfig,
of course, so IMHO the problem should not be a missing mode
specification, but let's do it manually:
/home/stefan> mf '\mode:=ljfour'
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3)
*drawdot (20,20);
! Extra tokens will be flushed.
<to be read again>
addto
addto_currentpicture->addto
.currentpicture
drawdot->...:def_pen_path_.fi.addto_currentpicture
.contour.currentpen_path.s...
<to be read again>
;
<*> drawdot (20,20);
? x
Transcript written on mfput.log.
/home/stefan>
I don't understand these error messages.
At a loss,
Stefan
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 09:42:28AM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 01:08:47AM +0100, Stefan Baums wrote:
> > Nils, what version of Debian and teTeX are you
> > using? Does the output appear in the same window
> > where you type the commands, or does another
> > xterm pop up?
> Neither of the two. A Giant window titled "mf" pops up, it's just an
> X-Window, behaving rather strange with my window manager (can't raise it,
> can't receive focus) What wm are you using?
>
> Are there some messages in /var/log/xdm*?
>
> tetex-bin is 0.9.980706-1, but I doubt it depends on that.
> What are the values of your DISPLAY, TERM, MFTERM?
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