I ran into this issue just now setting up X on my ancient netbook that I've just re-installed on. It's been an ongoing issue of mine that I've solved with an ugly hack. I'd like to know "the right way" of doing it. I have a ~/.xinitrc file like so...
#!/bin/bash [[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources /usr/bin/xterm -bg black -fg cyan -geometry 50x9+0+0 -fn lucidasanstypewriter-12 & /usr/bin/xterm -bg black -fg cyan -geometry +0+0 -fn lucidasanstypewriter-12 & exec /usr/bin/icewm > ~/.icewm.log 2>&1 Some time ago, somebody decided to deprecate iso8859-1 fonts. And when I run startx, the text console comes up with ======================================================================== /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font 'lucidasanstypewriter' /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font 'lucidasanstypewriter' Warning: Cannot convert string "lucidasanstypewriter" to type FontStruct Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Error: Aborting: no font found Warning: Cannot convert string "lucidasanstypewriter" to type FontStruct Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Error: Aborting: no font found ======================================================================== xterms come up with some dinky little font. It's bad enough on a 24 in 1920x1080 monitor. On an 11" 1366x768 netbook, it's unreadable. When I do a control-right-click on an xterm to manipulate fonts, the xterm crashes. One of the nice things about having multiple machines, is that I still had another machine with the old fonts. For a few years, I've preserved a copy of /usr/share/fonts from that machine as fonts_do_not_delete. So each time fonts are "updated" on my machines, I rename /usr/share/fonts to /usr/share/fonts.borken and copy the fonts_do_not_delete directory as /usr/share/fonts. OK, so whats supposed to be "the right way" to get working xterms with lucidasanstypewriter-12? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
