RFC: Making the xfs font server optional in Fedora Core and its derivatives.

[Mike Chambers]

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 15:29 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> Once your desktop is started, open a terminal and run various
> non-GNOME, non-GTK2, non-KDE, non-Qt applications.  For example,
> run Xt, Xaw, Motif, and other such apps, and see if they work
> properly, or if they fail miserably.  If any apps fail and
> report an error about a missing font or other font related
> problem, make note of it.

nedit works fine but has this below when started...

[mike at scrappy ~]$ nedit xorg.conf
nedit: the current locale is utf8 (en_US.UTF-8)
nedit: changed locale to non-utf8 (en_US)
Cannot convert string
"-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type
FontStruct
Cannot convert string
"-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Cannot convert string
"-*-helvetica-medium-o-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type
FontStruct
Cannot convert string
"-*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Cannot convert string "-*-courier-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
to type FontStruct
Cannot convert string
"-*-courier-medium-o-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

And emacs does NOT work.  The menu is readable and the icon shapes are
fine, but the wording is just boxes.  Also the letters in the files
themselves when trying to edit with emacs is just boxes.

[mike at scrappy ~]$ emacs
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

Evolution, firefox, epiphany, xchat, gnome-terminal all seem to work, as
well as most of the other gnome/desktop apps in a general workstation
install.  Will have to see about testing some more.

If anyone has some major apps that are of general use they want me to
try with this setup, let me know and will give it a whirl.

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

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