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Moriah
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PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2018 11:55 am    Post subject: HELP - twm fails because of missing font -SOLVED Reply with quote

Recent updates have broken twm. Apparently some adobe fonts are missing that used to be there, and twm refuses to start without them. How do I install the missing adobe fonts? They must be part of some package somewhere that got either updated or removed.

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PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2018 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Look at /var/log/emerge.log to find out which packages were removed. I guess that you need media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi and/or media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi.
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PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2018 6:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

But that's a font, not a package. What is the package containing that font, or any other adobe font for that matter?

Oops! You listed 3 packages, and I looked too quickly and thought it was one long font name. Thanks. I will try to install those tomorrow evening, which is the first chance I will get to to this.
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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 2018 1:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just installed both of those font packages and I still get:
Code:

cyrus ~ # DISPLAY=:7 twm &
[6] 4050
cyrus ~ # twm:  unable to open fontset "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"

[6]+  Exit 1                  DISPLAY=:7 twm
cyrus ~ #

I then re-installed twm and got:
Code:

cyrus ~ # DISPLAY=:7 twm &
[6] 12508
cyrus ~ # twm:  unable to open fontset "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"

[6]+  Exit 1                  DISPLAY=:7 twm
cyrus ~ #

So what is going on?
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PostPosted: Mon May 28, 2018 1:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you run 'xset fp rehash', as advised in the output message of emerge?
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* Installed fonts changed. Run 'xset fp rehash' if you are using non-fontconfig applications.
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PostPosted: Thu May 31, 2018 1:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Still no joy:

Code:

cyrus ~ # xset fp rehash
cyrus ~ # DISPLAY=:7 twm &
[6] 28210
cyrus ~ # twm:  unable to open fontset "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"

[6]+  Exit 1                  DISPLAY=:7 twm
cyrus ~ #


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2018 6:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was able to work around this problem, not fix it, by switching to ctwm instead of twm.
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