X fonts and abiword

[David A. Bandel]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:43:27 -0500
Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> There seems to be a well know problem with fonts and abiword. Less
> well know appears to be the fix.
> 
> I am using Abiword 1.02, the latest one for which there is a debian
> release, I think.
> 
> I get the usual font error on startup (Can't add font directory to X
> server path), but that goes away and all seems fine.  However, when I
> try certain fonts, like luxi anything, abiword  complains it can't
> find the font, then crashes. This seems to be because the common fonts
> like Times and Courier can be supplied from  the  X server without
> need of special abiword fonts.
> 
> I have added the abisuite font path (/usr/share/Abisuite/fonts) to my
> XF86Config-4 file, but this doesn't appear to do any good.  With xset
> -q, this is all I have with fonts:
> 
> Font Path:
>   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr
>   /X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dp
>   i/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/font
>   s/100dpi/,tcp/127.0.0.1:7102
> 
> Note: The abisuite font path doesn't appear.
> 
> If I try xset -fp /usr/share/Abisuite/fonts, I get this error message:
> xset:  warning, no entries deleted from font path.

try:

xset fp+ /usr/share/Abisuite/fonts
or 
xset +fp /usr/share/Abisuite/fonts

depending on whether you want the fonts appended or prepended to the
default list of fonts.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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