[olpc-help] How do I tell the XO X server to use the fonts t

Mike Meyer mikem at salter-point.com
Sat Dec 29 14:09:04 EST 2007


(ditto, see my similar post from a few days ago).
Does anyone have any clues?  --Mike

On 12/28/07, Anonymous <community-support at lists.laptop.org> wrote:
>
>
> Well, first of all, since X is started with "-fp built-ins", it ignores
> the FontPath specified by xorg.conf.  As far as I can tell, the "-fp
> built-ins" is hard-coded into olpc-dm.  So there's no easy way to change
> it.  Which seems really stupid to me, but perhaps I'm missing something
> here.
>
> In any case, it *should* be possible to change the font path after the
> server has started, using xset.  As I understand it, either of the following
> should work:
>
> (a) xset +fp unix/:7100
> (b) xset +fp /usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi
>
> Both of them give the unhelpful response:
>
> xset: bad font path element (#61), possible causes are:
> Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> Directory missing fonts.dir
> Incorrect font server address or syntax
>
> What the heck is going on here?
>
>
>
>
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Mike Meyer, Seattle WA
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