From: hanson@pogo.fnal.gov (Steve Hanson) Subject: Re: Xview3 Date: 25 Feb 1993 19:55:50 GMT
In <loovj0INN728@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> tclayton@oconee.Eng.Sun.COM (Todd Clayton) writes:
>In article <1993Feb23.193734.17676@cbfsb.cb.att.com> mvdfd1@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (donald.f.dodier) writes:
>>HELP!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>I have loaded SLS (newest version) I changed the xinitrc file with
>>the one in /usr/openwin but when I startx I get a pointer and nothing
>>else. If I click the right mouse button I get a white line about an
>>inch wide that runs from the top of the screen to the bottom of the screen.
>>What might cause this??
>I had this same problem and it appears others do to. I fixed it by down
>loading the three font tar files from tsx-11 in "packages/X11/XFree86-1.2".
>I then had to cd to the font directory and do something like:
> for i in *
> do
> mkfondir $i
> done
>You may want to try recreating the fonts.dir files and see if that helps
>before bothering with down loading the the font tarfiles. I did not try
>that first and it may have not been necessary to grab the font files
>from the net. It would be interesting to know for others.
>Hope it helps.
>-Todd
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Yup. All I did was to compress the fonts and do a mkfontdir. That
fixed it. I suspect that just the mkfontdir would have done the
trick, but I wanted the fonts compressed.
-- Steve Hanson - FERMILAB, Batavia, Il. hanson@pogo.fnal.gov or hanson@fnal.fnal.gov