On Mon, January 10, 2011 12:37, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011, James B. Byrne wrote: >> I copied your file into my home directory as ~/XTerm and took a >> look at its contents. As far as I can see you did not intend >> for me to make any alterations to it to begin with. > > James: > > I sent the entire file FYI, and it's yours to hack as you see > fit. Lines starting with "!" are comments and may be removed. > Thanks. I thought as much. It really does seem to come down to the fact that xfs is not finding the fonts and that therefore only the default fonts are left available to XTerm. I have tried configuring the FontPath argument in xorg.conf but all that manages to do is to stop the xserver from starting at all. I looked into the rc script and to me it is a nightmare. To begin with, instead of just configuring the font directories the startup script runs a font locater utility /usr/sbin/chkfontpath. When run from the command line this yields these results: /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled /usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1 /usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 /usr/share/fonts/webcore But when I run xset q I do not see these listed: Font Path: built-ins Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On Font cache: Server does not have the FontCache Extension File paths: Config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf Modules path: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log I would appreciate some guidance on how to proceed from this point. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3