Hello, Any xfsft gurus out there? If so, I list the steps I did in quick detail. Please take a look. Becuase I am stuck. Especially take note of step 8. I need xfsft, not xfstt by the way, for Star Office. 1) I had earlier installed xfs (xfsft) and mkfontdir from the xfsft tarball to /usr/X11R6/bin . I once again recopied the new xfs file to /usr/X11R6/bin just to make sure. 2) Check to make sure directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts /encodings exists. Yes. 3) Permissions of encodings directory drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 23 1999 encodings 4) Permissions of contents -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5840 May 23 1999 README -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11118 May 5 1999 adobe-dingbats.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3695 May 5 1999 adobe-standard.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8328 May 4 1999 adobe-symbol.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4255 Jan 13 1999 armscii-8.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5718 Oct 1 1998 ibm-cp437.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5567 Oct 1 1998 ibm-cp850.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5866 Oct 1 1998 ibm-cp852.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5536 Oct 2 1998 ibm-cp866.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3405 Jan 14 1999 iso8859-11.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2748 Mar 26 1999 iso8859-13.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2347 Oct 2 1998 microsoft-cp1250.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4720 Oct 2 1998 microsoft-cp1251.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1168 Jan 9 1999 microsoft-cp1252.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4231 Oct 2 1998 microsoft-cp1253.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1338 Oct 2 1998 microsoft-cp1254.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2777 Oct 2 1998 microsoft-cp1255.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2832 Oct 2 1998 microsoft-cp1256.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3245 Oct 2 1998 microsoft-cp1257.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1521 Oct 2 1998 microsoft-cp1258.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 964 May 5 1999 microsoft-win3.1.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262 Oct 1 1998 mulearabic-0.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1018 Oct 2 1998 mulearabic-1.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1078 Oct 1 1998 mulearabic-2.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2160 Jan 13 1999 mulelao-1.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4058 Jan 13 1999 tcvn-0.enc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2139 Jan 13 1999 viscii1.1-1.enc.Z 5) Put TrueType fons in the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts /TrueType All files in small case. I list the contents at the bottom of this email. 6) fonts.dir and fonts.scale in directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts /TrueType -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12868 Feb 28 14:01 fonts.dir -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12868 Feb 28 13:54 fonts.scale As a side note, here is how I created the two files: 1. cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType 2. /usr/local/bin/ttmkfdir > fonts.scale 3. mkfontdir -e /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings I saw another HOW-TO that used the line ttmkfdir -m 100 -o fonts.scale Any difference? 7) create file /etc/xfs.conf with contents: #- /etc/xfs.conf - clone-self = on client-limit = 10 # the path to your TrueType fonts catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType # how to log errors use-syslog = off error-file = /var/log/xfsft-errors.log # in decipoints default-point-size = 120 # x, y default-resolutions = 100,100,75,75 8) At this point, lets check out if xfsft works: root@host-name:/usr/home/russian > xfs -port 7101 -config /etc/xfs.conf & [1] 1332 root@host-name:/usr/home/russian > ps ax | grep xfs 1332 ? S 0:00 xfs -port 7101 -config /etc/xfs.conf 1334 ? R 0:00 grep xfs root@host-name:/usr/home/russian > /usr/X11R6/bin/fslsfonts -server localhost:7101 root@host-name:/usr/home/russian > So why would I get no response to the last command? 9) Create file /sbin/init.d/xfsft with the following contents: #! /bin/sh # # Based on "skeleton" by Copyright (c) 1995-1998 SuSE GmbH Nuremberg, Germany. # # Author: # # /sbin/init.d/xfsft # # and symbolic its link # # /sbin/xfsft # .. /etc/rc.config # Determine the base and follow a runlevel link name. base=${0##*/} link=${base#*[SK][0-9][0-9]} # Force execution if not called by a runlevel directory. test $link = $base && START_XFSFT=yes test "$START_XFSFT" = yes || exit 0 # The echo return value for success (defined in /etc/rc.config). return=$rc_done case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting Fontserver xfsft" sh -c "exec /usr/X11/bin/xfs -port 7101 -config /etc/xfs.conf /dev/null &" ||return=$rc_failed echo -e "$return" ;; stop) echo -n "Shutting down Fontserver xfsft " ## Stop daemon with killproc(8) and if this fails ## set echo the echo return value. killproc -TERM /usr/X11/bin/xfs || return=$rc_failed echo -e "$return" ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}" exit 1 ;; esac # Inform the caller not only verbosely and set an exit status. test "$return" = "$rc_done" || exit 1 exit 0 10) Create Symlinks ln -s /sbin/init.d/xfsft /sbin/init.d/rc2.d/S29xfs ln -s /sbin/init.d/xfsft /sbin/init.d/rc3.d/S29xfs ln -s /sbin/init.d/xfsft /sbin/init.d/rc2.d/K10xfs ln -s /sbin/init.d/xfsft /sbin/init.d/rc3.d/K10xfs 11) Insert the below line in /etc/rc.config START_XFSFT="yes" 12) Insert the font path FontPath "tcp/localhost:7101" below all the other font paths in /etc/XF86Config 13) Reboot When I do startx I get the error "Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'". At the very bottom, I list all the files in my directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType Any ideas? Thanks George -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103992 Feb 19 01:14 ariblk.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 58800 Feb 24 14:23 cc50012m.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 58476 Feb 24 14:23 cc50016m.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 56064 Feb 24 14:23 cc50032m.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 55356 Feb 24 14:23 cc50036m.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 55124 Feb 24 14:23 dc6800n.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1860 Feb 28 14:01 encodings.dir -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12868 Feb 28 14:01 fonts.dir -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12868 Feb 28 13:54 fonts.scale -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 83332 Feb 24 14:23 gc05002t.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 84116 Feb 24 14:23 gc05004t.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 79380 Feb 24 14:23 gc05022t.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62804 Feb 19 01:14 georgia.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60268 Feb 19 01:14 georgiab.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68172 Feb 19 01:14 georgiai.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69552 Feb 19 01:14 georgiaz.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 126056 Feb 19 01:14 impact.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 49400 Feb 24 14:23 lc14013t.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 57700 Feb 24 14:23 lc21004l.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 57464 Feb 24 14:23 lc21006l.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 46988 Feb 24 14:23 mc04122t.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97824 Feb 19 01:14 monotype.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 49048 Feb 24 14:23 nc19003l.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 50868 Feb 24 14:23 nc19004l.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 47216 Feb 24 14:23 nc19023l.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 48204 Feb 24 14:23 nc19024l.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 70748 Feb 24 14:23 nc20003d.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 65776 Feb 24 14:23 nc20004d.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 61788 Feb 24 14:23 nc20023d.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 61024 Feb 24 14:23 nc20024d.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 48880 Feb 24 14:23 nc29003t.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 49312 Feb 24 14:23 nc29004t.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 37320 Feb 24 14:23 sc6802n.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 65904 Feb 24 14:23 tc05002t.ttf -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 62124 Feb 24 14:23 tc05022t.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57428 Feb 19 01:14 trebuc.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56576 Feb 19 01:14 trebucbd.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55828 Feb 19 01:14 trebucbi.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62484 Feb 19 01:14 trebucit.ttf -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/