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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> On 8/18/05, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, David Moberg wrote:
> >
> > > I thought that BL3 came with libX11.so.6.
> >
> > Mine does not have it.  Abiword still works but maybe xset it not needed.
>
> Are you sure? In BL3, what happens when you ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/xset?

LibX11.so.6 > not found.
It needs also libc.so.5.  BL2 Xset needs all sorts of other things.

> > > > Where do I get a wrapper shell script?
> > >
> > > It comes with the BL3 abiword.tgz package. It is located at
> > > /usr/local/AbiSuite/bin/AbiWord.
> >
> > I get the same error message using the script as with plain abiword.
>
> abiword just calls the script, which is supposed to set up those fonts.
>
> > How do I add font paths on the command line (for Xves or xfbdev - which
> > works better with Tseng as I was able to exit three different ways without
> > crashing)?
>
> Xserver(1) says:
>
> ...
> -fp fontPath
> sets the search path for fonts. This path is a comma separated list of
> directories which the X server searches for font databases.
> ...
>
> So Xvesa -fp /fontpath should do what you want.
Xset would not work in BL2.  Error message which I reported earlier.

> > > Make sure that /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts contains the fonts and that
> > there
> > > are no broken links or missing fonts.dir/alias files.
> >
> > Lots of fonts there including fonts.dir and fonts.scale but not
> > fonts.alias
>
> My mistake. It is not needed anyway.
>
> > (which I do have in BL3 in another fonts directory under
> > X11R6).  Do I need to copy that over?
>
> No.
>
> > It did not contain Times.
>
> Because it wasn't intended for the Abiword fonts.
>
> > > AbiWord should work now. You can run the actual binary with
> > > /usr/local/AbiSuite//bin/AbiWord_s (but you will probably need to
> > > use the AbiWord script to set up the environment variables).
> >
> > It does not, maybe because xset fp+ does not seem to work.
> > Have you a copy of static Abiword to try with BL2?
>
> Yes, but I don't think that I will be able to tell you anything more than
> what you already know. Sometime I will test the SW71 xset with Xvesa
> and verify that there is a problem there.

The problem was fixed by using xsvga and xterm instead.  (And now I can 
switch back to rxvt by copying rgb.txt from BL3 to BL2 with 'Black' 
added).

> > Does Abiword really need 2.4MB of fonts?
>
> Yes, unless an alternate method (as you suggest) will work.
>
> > Could I reduce this to just one monospaced and one proportional font
> > and set up some alias to point to these?
>
> Maybe. I will try to modify the fonts.* files and report back.

Have fun.  I can't work on this again until October, we are going on a 
trip.

Thanks for all of the lovely programs you compiled and the help with 
everything.

> David
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