XF86Config weirdness

[Stijn Hoop]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:44:54AM +0200, Joan Picanyol wrote:
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> When I add the following lines to my XF86Config file, I can't startx
> anymore (Fatal error: could not open default font "fixed").
> 
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/jmk"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/lfpfonts-fix"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/lfpfonts-var"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
> 
> How should I use my fonts?

Add

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lb/X11/fonts/misc"

also. X absolutely _needs_ some fonts out of this directory (ie the 'fixed'
font as you discovered).

--Stijn

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