[clue-tech] problem installing the Mozilla font set

[matthew.w.mcillece at lmco.com]

Thanks, Jeremiah.

Adding the Mozilla fonts path to the /etc/X11/fs/config file and restarting
the xserver seems to be a better long-term solution than using xset every
time.  It didn't generate any error messages either.

Now I've got a new problem.  After I restarted Netscape, it still didn't
show the Mozilla fonts as available.  And I double checked to make sure that
Western (iso-8859-1) was selected for the font encoding.  Any tips?

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jeremiah Stanley [SMTP:jstanley at us.pason.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, August 31, 2000 11:14 AM
> To:	clue-tech at ta8.techangle.com
> Subject:	Re: [clue-tech] problem installing the Mozilla font set
> 
> > unzipped/untarred it,
> > did make pcf,
> > did make install,
> > and did xset fp+ /usr/local/lib/fonts/Mozilla:unscaled.
> 
> Okay, here's the problem. You XFS (X Font Server) isn't being found. This 
> isn't a problem. Just append it by hand and HUP XFS.
> 
> The config file for XFS is /etc/X11/fs/config and you want to append the 
> line:
> 
> /usr/local/lib/fonts/Mozilla:unscaled
> 
> to the end of the catalogue part of the config. Don't forget to put a 
> comma after the one right before it.
> 
> Now HUP XFS with the command:
> 
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart; /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs status
> 
> This should do what you want to do.
> 
> > I checked that the /usr/local/lib/fonts/Mozilla existed, and it did.
> > The permissions on /usr/local/lib/fonts/Mozilla were drwxr-xr-x for me
> > (non-root).
> 
> Good place to start, I don't trust some documentation from Mozilla though.
> 
> > /usr/local/lib/fonts/Mozilla did not have the fonts.dir file from the
> > Mozilla-fonts directory so I copied it over and tried the xset again,
> but
> > got the same error.
> 
> You may need to get rid of that, I don't know for sure what it does.
> 
> > So now I suspect that the problem must be, "Incorrect font server
> address or
> > syntax", but I don't know what to do about that.  I'm Running RH6.1.
> Can
> > anyone help?
> 
> It may be one of the environment variables set for you system or xset 
> wants to talk to it over the loopback and just isn't finding it.
> 
> Hope this helps and doesn't confuse you! Cheers!
> 
> Jeremiah Stanley - Pason USA (jstanley at us.pason.com)
> 
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