Fonts: x48ng doesn't starts without arguments

[MatMoul]

Firstly, thanks to revive x48... I sent a small PR for the x48ng.desktop file.

But on my setup I have a problem that was already there with x48. When I run x48 or x48ng, I have to add the following arguments: -smallFont fixed -mediumFont fixed -largeFont fixed -connFont fixed

When I launch it without args in console, I have this return :

x48ng: using XShm extension.
x48ng: FATAL ERROR, exit.
  - can't load font '-*-fixed-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'
  - Please change resource 'smallLabelFont'

I suspect a missing font.

Do you have an idea?

[gwenhael-le-moine]

Thank you, it's a modest effort as I'm slowly getting into the codebase and I haven't written C for a long time now…

Indeed I think you're missing the font.

What does xlsfonts | grep fixed | grep "iso8859-1$" returns? (I guess nothing)

Does xlsfonts | grep fixed | grep "iso10646-1$" returns something? (From what I read iso10646 means unicode)

x48ng -smallFont "-*-fixed-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1" -mediumFont "-*-fixed-bold-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1" -largeFont "-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1" -connFont "-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1" works for me

I'm running Slackware which tends to be conservative and all-batteries-included but maybe your OS doesn't include such legacy fonts?

[gwenhael-le-moine]

You can check more directly with xlsfonts -fn "-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" for example

[MatMoul]

Thanks for your feedback, Result of the first cmd :

-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1

And the second cmd :

xlsfonts: pattern "-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" unmatched

It seem that I'm missing the 14. My XOrg installation is very minimal. I didn't even have xlsfonts installed.

I will try to investigate these next days.

[MatMoul]

That's it, I found what I was missing on my ArchLinux installation.

Here is the list of dependencies I need: readline libxext xterm xorg-mkfontscale xorg-fonts-misc

For info, I have published the x48ng and x48ng-git packages on AUR. If you want to take control of it, ask me and I'll give it to you.

I maintain them using arch-pkgbuilder and that's what allowed me to see your work so quickly.

[JohnRobson]

If you have this problem:

$ x48ng
FATAL ERROR, exit.
  - can't load font '-*-fixed-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'
  - Please change resource 'x48ng'

try this:

x48ng --x11 --small-font "*-monotype-arial-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1" --medium-font "*-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1" --large-font "*-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1" --connection-font "*-monotype-arial-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1"