questions about xset

[Doll, Margaret Ann]

On my Mac
 mkfontdir .fonts
ln -s /usr/local/Mathematica/7.0/SystemFiles/Fonts .fonts
ls -sal .fonts
8 lrwxr-xr-x  1 mad  staff  44 Oct 25 15:16 .fonts ->
/usr/local/Mathematica/7.0/SystemFiles/Fonts
gc166-mad:~ mad$ ls -sal /usr/local/Mathematica/7.0/SystemFiles/Fonts
total 0
0 drwxr-xr-x    7 root  wheel    238 Oct 21 09:20 .
0 drwxr-xr-x    4 root  wheel    136 Oct 25 15:15 ..
0 drwxr-xr-x   66 root  wheel   2244 Oct 25 13:25 AFM
0 drwxr-xr-x  655 root  wheel  22270 Oct 25 13:25 BDF
0 drwxr-xr-x   30 root  wheel   1020 Oct 21 09:20 SVG
0 drwxr-xr-x   40 root  wheel   1360 Oct 21 09:20 TTF
0 drwxr-xr-x   78 root  wheel   2652 Oct 25 13:25 Type1

 xset +fp .fonts
xset:  bad font path element (#1149), possible causes are:
    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
    Directory missing fonts.dir
    Incorrect font server address or syntax
gc166-mad:~ mad$ xset +fp .fonts/BDF
xset:  bad font path element (#1149), possible causes are:
    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
    Directory missing fonts.dir
    Incorrect font server address or syntax
gc166-mad:~ mad$ xset +fp .fonts/BDF/font.dir
xset:  bad font path element (#1149), possible causes are:
    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
    Directory missing fonts.dir
    Incorrect font server address or syntax

This is the same problem that I have on the head node:


ls -sal /share/apps/Mathematica7.0/SystemFiles/Fonts
total 60
 4 drwxr-xr-x  7 root root  4096 Oct 21 09:20 .
 4 drwxr-xr-x 18 root root  4096 Oct 25 15:10 ..
 4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Oct 25 13:25 AFM
36 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 36864 Oct 25 13:25 BDF
 4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Oct 21 09:20 SVG
 4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Oct 21 09:20 TTF
 4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Oct 25 13:25 Type1

[root at ted Fonts]# xset +fp /share/apps/Mathematica7.0/SystemFiles/Fonts/BDF
xset:  bad font path element (#1149), possible causes are:
    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
    Directory missing fonts.dir
    Incorrect font server address or syntax

Although xfs is running on the head node:
xfs       5359     1  0 Oct25 ?        00:00:00 xfs -droppriv -daemon

It was not running on the mac.  I started the process on the mac and tried
the xset again.

 sudo /usr/X11/bin/xfs &
[1] 7770
gc166-mad:~ mad$ xset +fp .fonts/BDF
xset:  bad font path element (#1149), possible causes are:
    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
    Directory missing fonts.dir
    Incorrect font server address or syntax




On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Nigel Wade <nmw at ion.le.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 25/10/11 18:50, Doll, Margaret Ann wrote:
>
>> As root I edited
>>
>> /etc/X11/fs/config to add the lines on the head node of the cluster
>>
>> /share/apps/Mathematica7.0/**SystemFiles/Fonts/Type1,
>>         /share/apps/Mathematica7.0/**SystemFiles/Fonts/BDF,
>>         /share/apps/Mathematica7.0/**SystemFiles/Fonts/AFM
>>
>> I restarted xfs on the head node
>>
>> service xfs restart
>>
>> I checked my firewall on the head node of the computer clustrer
>>
>> netstat -nlp | grep 7100
>> unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     9788554
>> 5359/xfs            /tmp/.font-unix/fs7100
>>
>> I then logged into the head node from my Mac using "ssh -Y"
>>
>> As a regular user, my xset path does not contain the Mathematica fonts.
>> And Mathematica still gives me the "bad font message"
>>
>> My local computer is a Mac, 10.6.
>>
>>
> After doing that did you add the font server to the font path on your Mac?
> If you don't then your X server doesn't know anything about the font server
> you've just set up.
>
>
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