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xset: bad font path element (#305)
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| kristnjov 2005-10-24, 3:45 pm |
| Hey guys, I recently installed fluxbox on my account at my university
and I'm trying to get some themes (styles) to work, but they require a
special set of fonts. I downloaded the fonts and I've done exactly as it
says in the documentation, but I can't get it to work. Here's the error:
$ xset fp+ $HOME/.fonts
xset: bad font path element (#305), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
~/.fonts/ is the directory in which the fonts are and I've done pretty
much exactly like this:
//--
Downloaded and extracted the fonts.
Moved all the fonts to the directory .fonts (which I created myself).
mkfontdir .fonts
xset fp+ $HOME/.fonts
//--
I do not have root access.
Could anyone help?
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| Dave Gibson 2005-10-24, 3:45 pm |
| kristnjov <kristnjov@nospamplz.com> wrote:
> Hey guys, I recently installed fluxbox on my account at my university
> and I'm trying to get some themes (styles) to work, but they require a
> special set of fonts. I downloaded the fonts and I've done exactly as it
> says in the documentation, but I can't get it to work. Here's the error:
>
> $ xset fp+ $HOME/.fonts
> xset: bad font path element (#305), possible causes are:
> Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> Directory missing fonts.dir
> Incorrect font server address or syntax
>
> ~/.fonts/ is the directory in which the fonts are and I've done pretty
> much exactly like this:
> //--
> Downloaded and extracted the fonts.
> Moved all the fonts to the directory .fonts (which I created myself).
> mkfontdir .fonts
If the fonts are scalable (like TrueType), run mkfontscale on .fonts
before mkfontdir.
> xset fp+ $HOME/.fonts
> //--
>
> I do not have root access.
> Could anyone help?
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