On 2016-03-02, <to...@tuxteam.de> <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 01:09:54PM +0000, Curt wrote: >> >> Trying to run the 'display' command from ImageMagick without an argument >> gives the following "error" (the app does not open at all): >> >> curty@einstein:~$ display >> display.im6: unable to load font >> `-microsoft-verdana-*-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*': Resource temporarily >> unavailable @ error/xwindow.c/XBestFont/834. > > ImageMagick uses X resources. So perhaps try setting it either in your > local ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources or in the system-global > /etc/X11/app-defaults/ImageMagick something like > > ImageMagick: <your font spec> > > Note: the "ImageMagick" at the start is just a (most probably wrong) > guess. You can find our which class the thing thinks it is by running > xprop and clicking on a window. The colon and TAB separator are > important.
If I had window. As I said, the app does not open at all. No window to click on. This is why I'm mentioning the message at all. If the application opened and ran correctly I wouldn't be mentioning a little message here. I only care about it because it seems related to a failure of the application to run whatsoever. Thanks for trying to help. > To find a suitable font, just run "xfontsel -print", select the font > you want by narrowing, when you quit xfontsel, it will print the > spec of the selected font to stdout. > Not a thorough recipe, but hopefully a help towards your journey :-) > > regards > - -- t > > -- Hypertext--or should I say the ideology of hypertext?--is ultrademocratic and so entirely in harmony with the demagogic appeals to cultural democracy that accompany (and distract one’s attention from) the ever-tightening grip of plutocratic capitalism. - Susan Sontag
