[clue-tech] problem installing the Mozilla font set

[Jeremiah Stanley]

I would move the font you added to the top of the list where you added it 
(that was really vague, see below to grok). And then HUP the font server 
again.

I don't know much about Netscrape, the programmers that wrote this 
software need to be shot (drug out into the street first of course!). It 
makes me want to kill puppies that Mozilla still sucks. I would try and 
find some X server documentation (http://www.xfree86.org/) that may lead 
you to how to make sure that fonts are loaded. My knowledge is now out, 
does anyone else have any ideas?

Jeremiah Stanley - Pason USA (jstanley at us.pason.com)

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 matthew.w.mcillece at lmco.com wrote:

> 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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