Subject: Re: X woes
To: Boudreault Benoit <boudreab@ERE.UMontreal.CA>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@eden.rutgers.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/25/1996 23:18:15
> some of the fonts are not installed tho, if they are they are in
> compressed form (because of the low disk space problem)
Compressed by what? gzip? It seems that compressed font support is
in the X server, but I don't believe it supports the .gz format.
You should have them compressed by 'compress' in .Z files.
> the fonts.dir and fonts.alias are the proper files, so that should
> not be a problem
Without seeing the contents of your font directories and
font.{dir,alias} files, I'm not sure enough to say that. I tend to
believe that your font.dir file must have the exact file name for
the fonts; i.e. if a font file is compressed, font.dir must refer to
it as 7x14.pcf.Z for instance.
> here is where the problem occurs
> 1- i start Xwindows via startx
Hey, it's not Xwindows. Just try "man X" if you have doubts ;-)
ken