Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] fonts

[Behdad E. <be...@ba...>]

The shell expands ~ to your home path, don't worry.


On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Karl Koehler wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Ahmad Emami wrote:
> > Hi,
> > This problem may not be very related but I can't
> > install the arabic fonts and hence run mlterm.
> > 
> > I have got these fonts and put them into ~/fonts/
> > directory:
> > 10x20.bdf
> > 10x20.pcf
> > 
> > I ran 'mkfontdir' command with no problem but when I
> > run 'xset fp+ ~/fonts/' I get the following error:
> > xset:  bad font path element (#37), possible causes are:
> >     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> >     Directory missing fonts.dir
> >     Incorrect font server address or syntax
> > 
> > Do you know what the problem might be?
> The '~' is not legal, as it refers to _your_ home,of which the 
> X-server/font-server knows nothing. You should specify  a full path the 
> X-server can see.
> 
> As a note on the side: I made the experience that it is faster to have
> _only_ the pcf-font in the fontpath ( depending on what is mkfontdir 
> writes into fonts.dir ).
> 
> 
> 	Karl
> 
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