Re: Font not defined

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, address@hidden (Robert J. Chassell) writes:

> Both
>     xfd -fn -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--20-200-75-75-C-100-ISO8859-1
> and
>     xfd -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-*-*-*-c-100-iso8859-1
> produce X windows which look fine.

> However, 

>  $  xfd -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-*-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1
> Warning: Cannot convert string 
> "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-*-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
> xfd:  no font to display

It seems to be a bug of X.

> In a Bourne again shell, `xdpyinfo' shows
[...]
>     vendor string:    The X.Org Foundation
>     vendor release number:    10402000
>     X.Org version: 1.4.2

Hmmm, yours is newer than mine (X.Org version: 1.3.0).

I've just installed a workaround for xfont_open().  Could
you try again?

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Kenichi Handa
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