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http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14857

           Summary: ratpoison fails to start (cannot load default font)
           Product: Codex
           Version: z-rejected grimoire
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: wm-addons
        AssignedTo: sm-grimoire-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org
        ReportedBy: catnap AT luukku.com


I've installed ratpoison 1.4.1 from the test grimoire and it installed
successfully. However, when I add ratpoison to ~/.xinitrc and try "startx",
ratpoison tries to start but fails, and I'm thrown back to the console. The
error message it shows is this:

ratpoison: Cannot load font -*-fixed-bold-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-c-*-*-*.

So it looks like ratpoison cannot find its default font. (I also tried to set 
a
different default font in ~/.ratpoisonrc but I still get the exact same error
message.)

Openbox starts without problems (with "startx") and if I open a terminal 
window
and type "xlsfonts | grep fixed-bold-r-normal--15", I get this output:

-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-120-100-100-c-90-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-120-100-100-c-90-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-10
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-10
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-11
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-11
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-13
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-13
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-14
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-14
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-15
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-15
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-16
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-16
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-2
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-2
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-3
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-3
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-4
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-4
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-5
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-5
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-7
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-7
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-8
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-8
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-9
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-9

So it looks to me like the necessary fonts are there, but ratpoison just 
cannot
see them. Maybe this is due to the modular xorg spell installing fonts in a
location where ratpoison doesn't expect them to be? 

A google search didn't give me any clues how to fix this, it seems that not
many people have encountered the same problem. Ratpoison's configure script
seems to have options "--x-includes=DIR" and "--x-libraries=DIR" but I 
couldn't
figure out where x-includes and x-libraries are in Source Mage.

So I decided to report this as a bug. Please see if you can reproduce the
problem: install ratpoison, add it to ~/.xinitrc, and use "startx" to see if 
it
gives you the same error message. I cannot solve this on my own.


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