Re: [MiNT] X11 and Font problems

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:51:32 , m0n0 <ole@monochrom.net> wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>  I once tried X11 for FreeMiNT but dropped the interest because there
>  where problems with fonts ( I just installed X11 and did what the Docs
>  (I believe they where written by AltF4) said). ( It contained some infos
>  on how to add some mandatory font's to the X11 installation).
>
>  But now I was interested again and wanted to ask for help on this:
>
>  1. When I launch xcalc, I have some scaling/redraw/size/whatever
>  problem with the Font that xcalc uses. See screenshot "xcalc.jpg". I
>  resized the area where the problem occurs.
>
>  2. When I launch xterm, it bails out because of missing fonts. See
>  screenshot "xterm_error.jpg".
>
>  3. When I launch xterm with -fn commandline and a font name (that's one
>  ugly thing within X11...) it looks fine and I would like to have
>  that font as default font for X11, so that xcalc looks the same... (if
>  the xcalc problem is really because of the "default" font) .
>
>  Has somebody info on this? I know that some people have nice X11 apps
>  running, like XChat and sylpheed for example... and it looks like they
>  have no problems with fonts - can somebody explain?
>
>  Greets,
>  m

When I run xterm I also get some badfonts but it doesn't seem to have
any ill effects:

event #90(0) by #122 = 143/8F, 0100,0000,0000,0000
[127.0.0.1:1044] Request from 127.0.0.1 (at 7)
004#0000: ByteOrder = MSB, Version = X11.0
004#0000: Authorization: <none>
## oBuf 0x1 -> 176
004#0002: {QueryExtension} 'BIG-REQUESTS'
004#0004: {QueryExtension} 'XKEYBOARD'
004#0008: OpenFont F:40001 'cursor'
004#000A: {QueryExtension} 'XFree86-Bigfont'
004#000B: OpenFont F:40003 'nil2'
004#000B: ERROR BadName in OpenFont('nil2')
          -> 'nil2'
004#000C: ERROR BadFont F:40003 in QueryFont
004#000D: OpenFont F:40004 '-*-*-*-R-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-1'
004#000E: QueryFont F:40004
## oBuf 0x1 -> 3140
004#002A: OpenFont F:40010 'fixed'
004#002B: QueryFont F:40010
[wm]0000: ReparentWindow(W:4000F) mapped