A new install 64-bit Dell. I noted all the font files in my old machine's /var/lib/world file and installed them on the new machine. Notwithstanding that I had mysterious problems. One of the icons on my ICEWM toolbar launches the command... xterm -bg black -fg cyan -geometry 80x58 -fn lucidasanstypewriter-12
I got error messages about not being able to find the font, notwithstanding that I have both media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi and media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi installed. This had 3 unpleasant side-effects... 1) xterm went to a smallish default font that was rather hard to read 2) I figured no problem; I'll go {CTRL-RIGHTCLICK} and select a larger font. However, as soon as I did that, the xterm shut down! 3) xfreecell wouldn't start due to a font-not-found error. Now it's getting really serious. After a bunch of futile screwing around including a reprise of my http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg123858.html I exited X and performed a "font transplant". I.e. I renamed /usr/share/fonts and copied over the /usr/share/fonts directory from the older machine. And it works beautifully. I've backed up the directory to a tarball on USB stick, just in case. And I will be monitoring any updates with an eagle eye. Anyone have any ideas? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications