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- Subject: Re: SoftWare.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.170128.16265@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
- From: jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle)
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:01:28 GMT
- References: <awatts.712044818@guinevere>
- Organization: Illinois State University
- Lines: 54
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- Hi,
-
- In article <awatts.712044818@guinevere> awatts@st.nepean.uws.edu.au (Andrew Watts) writes:
- >
- >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 -
-
- > [error describing how xhextris fails getting font deleted]
- >
-
- I noticed that the makefile blows up, unable to convert the font to
- type 'snf'. Since X under linux uses 'pcf' fonts, I went in and
- ran bdftopcf by hand, moved the hex10.pcf font to my misc fonts
- directory, ran mkfontdir, xset fp rehash, and the program still fails.
- Anyone else have better luck?
-
- >Thats all the program reports as it exists, i was told that maybe using xset
- >to set the 'fp' to the default would work, but.. I dont have xset. So Two
- >questions, anyone else get Xhextris working, and does anyone have xset?
- >(I have seen neither mentioned for Linux X11)
-
- Someone posted something about this before, but it is important enough
- that it bears repeating. THE LINUX X11R5 DISTRIBUTION ISN'T THE COMPLETE
- MIT DISTRIBUTION! Most notably, various clients and utilities are not
- included, such as oclock, xset, etc. This isn't a problem, and there is
- no need to bloat the x release with this stuff (IMHO) since it can be
- ftped: (well, perhaps xset aught to be in the standard release...
-
- export.lcs.mit.edu:/pub/R5untarred/[mit | contrib]/clients
-
- Each directory contains an (untarred) set of files needed to build the
- client. Just 'mget *' from within the appropriate directory (make sure
- you do it from an empty dir on your local machine or you'll get confused
- real fast). Everything I've gotten from there so far has compiled strait
- out of the box, by running xmkmf, editing the Makefile to set USRLIBDIR
- to /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.2.2[/shared] and replacing two other
- $(USRLIBDIR) references with /usr/lib, and running make, make install,
- and make clean.
-
- Perhaps the docs in the X11 release should mention this, particularly as
- xset, xconsole are much used components of X.
-
- Hope all this is some help!
-
- Jean.
-
- BTW - For laughes, check out oclock. Its alot more fun than xclock!
-
-
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- Computer Science, Illinois State University |
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