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[mpavicic AT grad.hr (Prof. Mladen Pavicic)]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 01:05:58PM +1200, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> > > execute: tar -zxvf /fd/disk2.tgz usr/X11R6/bin/startx
> > 
> > Yes, this works. 
> 
> So startx was the problem.  That means you installed
> something that overwrote startx.  You said you installed
> fvwm2, but the fvwm2.tgz package does not overwrite startx.

I'm almost sure it does. (I followed pkg fvwm2.tgz wrote 
down - at the very end it wrote: I'm now writing startx 
or something like that. 

> > There is still the following problem though. 
> > Upon executing startx I get the following messages: 
> > rxvt: Failed to open input method 
> > Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset 

> It appears you installed the xbin.tgz package, which
> is the foundation X package for Slackware.  i

Unfortunately, I did so indeed. 

> However, 
> BL3 already has an X foundation (based on Xvesa).
> If you installed xbin.tgz, it overwrote bits of the
> BL3 X foundation (including startx).  If that is the
> case, your X foundation is now a hodge-podge.

Ugh! Can I restore BL3 X foundation? 

> > And when I open XFig it is too large for the ice window 

> Can't you increase the icewm window to full-screen?

Yes, I can but that doesn't help. 

> And/or use a smaller font?

No (=I don't know how), that is the main problem.

> > I guess this is because of the fonts that cannot be scalled.

> There is one scalable font in BL3, but AFAIK rxvt can't
> use scalable fonts.  Perhaps it would help to install the
> font package(s) from Slackware.  

I installed two or three, but that takes away my HDD free 
space and I couldn't find the proper ones

Cheers,

Harry.