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can not get it to run, not helpful error message: "sxlock: error: could not find font. Try using a full description." #10

Closed okurz closed 8 years ago

okurz commented 8 years ago

I don't understand how to start it. Maybe the default font can not be found. help would be appreciated.

okurz commented 8 years ago

Solved it. It takes X font selections, e.g.

./sxlock -f "-*-terminus-*-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"

Anyway, a sane default would be good or a better usage description might help :-)

bbenne10 commented 8 years ago

The default is sane. It's "-misc-fixed-medium-r---17-120----*-iso8859-1", which should be on most machines that have xorg installed. I'm guessing you have a distro that doesn't package the fonts with the xorg package and didn't/don't have them installed. (Arch comes to mind. They have xorg-fonts-100dpi and xorg-fonts-75dpi, one of which includes fixed, iirc. These packages are recommends, but not required.)

Maybe a better error message would be helpful, but the one that's there seems decent enough to me.

okurz commented 8 years ago

thanks for the fast answer.

I am running "openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64)" and just starting up sxlock gives me this message, i.e. it can not find the font. I am wondering how I could list installed X fonts or what I could install to supply the default.

bbenne10 commented 8 years ago

That's really interesting. I fully expected that you'd be using Arch (which is why I mentioned it).

To list the fonts available to sxlock, you can issue xlsfonts. I'm not 100% sure what package openSuse uses, but could it be xorg-x11-fonts?

okurz commented 8 years ago

Yes, xorg-x11-fonts is installed.

In case you are still interested, output from xlsfonts: https://gist.github.com/okurz/d34acdad775c34d97174