xterm font issue

[Mark LaPierre]

Hey Y'all,

When I start an xterm I get:

[mlapier@mushroom ATC]$ xterm
Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
xterm: cannot load font 
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1

[mlapier@mushroom ATC]$ xterm -version
X.Org 6.8.99.903(261)

[mlapier@mushroom ATC]$ uname -a
Linux mushroom.patch 2.6.34.7-66.fc13.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed Dec 15 
07:21:49 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I tried yum install font-*

No joy.

[François Patte]

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Le 27/02/2011 01:17, Mark LaPierre a écrit :
> Hey Y'all,
>
> When I start an xterm I get:
>
> [mlapier@mushroom ATC]$ xterm
> Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
> xterm: cannot load font 
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1

try:

xlsfonts | grep "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed" | grep 10646

And see what is the reply: no reply is: you don't have fonts!

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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
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F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. [phone]
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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[Greg Woods]

On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 09:57 +0100, François Patte wrote:
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> Le 27/02/2011 01:17, Mark LaPierre a écrit :
> > Hey Y'all,
> >
> > When I start an xterm I get:
> >
> > [mlapier@mushroom ATC]$ xterm
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
> > xterm: cannot load font 
> > -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
>
> try:
>
> xlsfonts | grep "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed" | grep 10646
>
> And see what is the reply: no reply is: you don't have fonts!

...in which case you may need to install the xorg-x11-fonts-misc
package. This is what I need in order to use the non-default font sizes
from xterm.

--Greg

xterm font issue (SOLVED)

[Mark LaPierre]

On 02/27/2011 09:02 AM, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 09:57 +0100, François Patte wrote:
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> > Le 27/02/2011 01:17, Mark LaPierre a écrit :
> > > Hey Y'all,
> > >
> > > When I start an xterm I get:
> > >
> > > [mlapier@mushroom ATC]$ xterm
> > > Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
> > > xterm: cannot load font
> > > -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
> >
> > try:
> >
> > xlsfonts | grep "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed" | grep 10646
> >
> > And see what is the reply: no reply is: you don't have fonts!
>
> ...in which case you may need to install the xorg-x11-fonts-misc
> package. This is what I need in order to use the non-default font sizes
> from xterm.
>
> --Greg

I did get a response from xlsfonts but there was too much in the pipe 
for grep to handle.

Then I used:
# yum install xorg-x11-fonts*

That did the trick.  I probabaly didn't need all the fonts, just the one 
package xorg-x11-fonts-misc, but hey the whole thing was only 47K.

Thanks for the help.