Re: [MiNT] X-window problem

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Jim DeClercq <jimd@panix.com> wrote:
> Hello, all
>
> Trying to get x-windows back the way I had it, and got stuck.
>
> In the mean time, I got a copy of Papyrus, which uses bitstream speedo
> fonts, and put those in BTFONTS on my boot drive.
>
> Then, x-windows found only those BTFONTS, and ignored GEMSYS. So I moved
> BTFONTS to another partition, and changed font paths in Papyrus, and
> x-windows then found only system fonts.
>
> There is an empty man page on setting font paths, and an obscure note at the
> bottom of the xfontsel man page that a file called &XFILESEARCHPATH\xfontsel
> was somehow involved.
>
> I tried it as a setenv string with a path on the end, and nothing new
> happened.
>
> How do I get all the fonts in GEMSYS and BTFONTS listed in available fonts,
> so I can use my old font.alias file?
>
> Jim
>
The quickest way around this should be to make sure that both the
GEMSYS path and the BTFONTS path are in you X11 .config file. Here is
an example:

Section "Files"
#	FontPath	"unix/:7100"			# local font server
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
        FontPath "/etc/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
        FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
        FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/type1"
        FontPath "/etc/X11/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
        FontPath "/etc/X11/fonts/Speedo"
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath "/etc/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath "/etc/X11/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath "/etc/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
EndSection

This does not solve the problem of being able to use both fonts from
TOS/GEM, just for X..


Paul