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From: cook@iris.ucdavis.edu (Doug Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XView...How does it find the fonts?
Keywords: XView.config, Imake, FONTINSTDIR
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Date: 28 Nov 89 22:53:29 GMT
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In article <2740@ucrmath.UCR.EDU> yakker@ucrmath.UUCP (Matt Robinson) writes:
> I am trying to compile the libraries of XView our the Sun Sparcstation.
> I have everything working fine now (Thanks to all of the suggestions
> given to me ... Imake is a gift from God.), but I can't get the programs
> I compile in XView to properly read from the fonts directory.  If anyone
> has compiled this before, we store our libraries in /usr/local/lib, and
> we hold all X11 fonts in /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts.  All of the binaries
> are in /usr/local/bin/X11.  There is a variable in the initial XView.config
> referring to the fonts directory, labelled /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts.  The
> only pronblem is that there is another variable called FONTINSTDIR which
> also specifies the fonts directory.  Which one do I use?  

There are two distinct problems here. The first is getting the fonts 
installed on your system; this is what the FONTINSTDIR macro is for. It
tells Imake where to put the fonts when it installs them. So if you
had problems installing the fonts, this is where you'll want to take
a look. The second problem is getting the XView clients to work with
the installed fonts. Recall that with the X Window System, it is the
server's job, not the client's, to locate the fonts. Hence, once you've
installed the fonts, you need to make sure that your server can get to
them. Whatever directory you've installed the XView fonts in must be
in your server's fontpath, or it won't be able to find them. Use
the "xset" program to examine and change your server's fontpath. You
may also have to rehash the fontpath when done ("xset fp rehash").

If you encounter more difficulties, please get in touch.

	-Doug

Doug Cook				dmc@sun.com
Window Systems Group			cook@gandalf.ucdavis.edu
Sun Microsystems, Inc.