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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Problem with xset
Keywords: xset
Message-ID: <1991Jun30.215558.6297@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 91 21:55:58 GMT
References: <1991Jun29.020136.3168@milton.u.washington.edu>
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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In article <1991Jun29.020136.3168@milton.u.washington.edu>, yang@milton.u.washington.edu (Joe Yang) writes:

> I am trying to set up a fontpath, but the xset command I used kept
> giving me an error message.  I have set up a directory with the fonts
> I need in fontdir.  Here is the command I used:

> xset +fp ~/fontdir

> Here is the error message that xset produced:

> X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 
>   Major opcode of failed request:  51 (X_SetFontPath)

There are a couple of plausible reasons.

One is that you didn't use mkfontdir (or your server's equivalent, eg
bldfamily I think for Sun's xnews server).

The other is that your server is running on some machine (eg, an X
terminal) that can't make sense out of the path ~/fontdir expands into.
The string you pass to xset must be something that makes sense to the
server; for servers where it's a pathname (which includes most
servers), it has to be a pathname in the filesystem the server sees.

					der Mouse

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