On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Mike Fieschko wrote:
> >>> "michael" == michael chopek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [snip]
>
> michael> "FontTransSocketUnixConnect: Can't connect: errno=1"
> michael> "failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' Fatal Server
> michael> Error: could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> [snip]
>
> Searching Google Linux (http://www.google.com/linux) "for failed to
> set default font path" returns, among others:
>
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/bugs/db/41/413-b.html
>
> which page includes
>
> [begin quoting]
>
> This is because /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType did not exist!
> So, you have to recompile Xnest, or make a
>
> ln -s ttfonts /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType
>
> to fix it.
>
> [end quoting]
>
I think Xnest was hacked^H^H^H^H^H^Hfixed for this already, it should also
default to useing xfs, i remember seeing the changelog email.
michael, is the font server running? (/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs status)
does it log any errors (alt-f12 or /var/log/messages, depending on msec
level)
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