Comment # 6 on bug 1118557 from Stefan Br�ns

(In reply to Ulrich Windl from comment #3)
> (In reply to Dr. Werner Fink from comment #1)
> > No CM but
> > 
> >  > grep fontset -i /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XDvi
> >  *tipShell.fontSet: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> 
> I see the same output here, but xdvi still complains:
> ~> xdvi
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> Error: Aborting: no fontset found
> 
> What are the roles of ~/.cache/texmf/fonts and ~/texmf/fonts?
> I only have .cache/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/cm*pk here, but xdvi
> seems to look for "vf" instead of "pk"...

This is not relevant here ...

> (In reply to Stefan Br�ns from comment #2)
> > *only* mkfontdir and the xorg-x11-fonts-core are required. As soon as you
> > install both packages, everything else is configured automatically.
> > 
> > You may need to relogin for the changes to take effect.
> > 
> > This is a packaging bug in texlive-xdvi.
> 
> I have both: mkfontdir-1.0.7-lp150.1.6.x86_64 (/usr/bin/mkfontdir) and
> xorg-x11-fonts-core-7.6-lp150.2.1.noarch installed, but still no luck.
> I tested a very old (1996) DVI file that definitely worked on previous
> versions, as well as the version created with Leap 15.0: Both bring up the
> same error messages.
> 
> When using "xdvi -notype1fonts" I see some fonts being created, but still
> xdvi ends like this:
> 
> Font metrics written on cmr10.tfm.
> Output written on cmr10.657gf (128 characters, 26100 bytes).
> Transcript written on cmr10.log.
> mktexpk: /home/user/.cache/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/cmr10.657pk:
> successfully generated.
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> Error: Aborting: no fontset found

You are confusing fonts used by the application with fonts used by the
document. The missing font is required by the xdvi to show menus, dialogs, ...,
while the "-notype1fonts" options affects the fonts used to show the document.

You can convert the DVI file to e.g. PDF and open it in any PDF viewer.

Also, Evince AFAIK has a plugin to view DVI files directly.