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- From: barr@hardy.u.washington.edu (David Barr)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: SoftWare.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.173837.14848@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 17:38:37 GMT
- References: <awatts.712044818@guinevere>
- Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Washington
- Lines: 38
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- awatts@st.nepean.uws.edu.au (Andrew Watts) writes:
-
- >Two things,
-
- >First: What X programs do others use for wordprocessing and the like? (I'm
- >hoping someone will say something other than VI, and not TeX, perhaps some
- >other suggestions?)
-
- Someone is working on porting Interviews to linux. I haven't ever
- seen this software package, but I've heard that it includes a wysiwyg
- word processing program for X.
-
- >Second: (pretty trivial, but anyhow) I was trying to compile xhextris from
- >the contrib area of X11 ftp areas, well, it compiles fine, but (always a but
- >isnt there :) I get this error -
-
- ># xhex
-
- >Welcome, root...
- >X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
- > Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath)
- > Value in failed request: 0x2
- > Serial number of failed request: 4
- > Current serial number in output stream: 5
- >#
-
- I think xhextris comes with a file called xhextris.bdf. You need to type:
-
- bdftopcf < xhextris.bdf > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/xhextris.pcf
- cd /usr/lib/X11/fonts
- mkfontdir .
-
- If you are running X when you do this, the font will not show up
- immediately, and you will have to type 'xset fp rehash' before you run
- xhextris. It will be loaded automatically the next time you run
- 'startx'.
-
- David
-