[RULE] Re: Abiword and fontpathes

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Tuesday 13 May 2003 02:35 pm, Ingo Lantschner (Listen) wrote:
> I am actually working on a small and low-ressources-RedHat 9
> installation for a series of Pentium 166MHz/64MB RAM. Thanks to some
> scripts and packages form the Rule-Project
> (http://www.rule-project.org) we are quiet near our goal. OpenOffice
> works in this installation, but we would like to have a faster and
> smaller alternativ - namely AbiWord. After installling the AbiWord-rpm
> from the RedHat Shrike CD2 I run into this
>
> problem, when calling 'abiword' from the xterm:
> > AbiWord could not load the following font of fontset from the X
> > Window System display server:
> >            [-*-Times New Roman-regular-r-*-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-*]
> > ...
>
> After quiting this error-box with OK a second quiet similar
> error-message pops up and then AbiWord closes.

Hi Ingo,
I've discovered that the tinyx servers aren't using xfs to serve fonts by 
default. You can force tinyx to use the font server by editing the rule 
supplied /usr/X11R6/bin/startx file and changing one line:
defaultserverargs="-screen 800x600x24 -2button"
to
defaultserverargs="-screen 800x600x24 -2button -fp unix/:7100"

Note that the resolution can also be changed if your hardware supports it. 
I'm using:
defaultserverargs="-screen 1024x768x24 -2button -fp unix/:7100"

After making that change and restarting X, I was able to get abiword to 
load using the tinyx Xvesa server with the icewm window manager.

I'm trying to rebuild the tinyx package so that it uses xfs (if available) 
by default, but for now, the work-around above should do the trick.

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