On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 02:10:57PM +0100, Stefan Baums wrote: > I first tried it with tetex-bin 0.9.981113-2 (the slink/stable > version), then got tetex-bin 0.9.990406-1 (from > potato/unstable): no difference. > > /home/stefan> echo $DISPLAY $TERM $MFTERM > :0.0 rxvt rxvt > > I?m focussing now on trying to make it run in a plain xterm, > with the unnecessary MFTERM (and COLORTERM, just to be paranoid) > unset: > > /home/stefan> echo $TERM $DISPLAY > xterm :0.0 > /home/stefan> mf > This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3) > **\relax > > *drawdot (20,20); > > *showit; > > mf: Window support for X was not compiled into this binary. > mf: To do so, rerun configure --with-x, recompile, and reinstall. > mf: (Or perhaps you just failed to specify the mode.) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This clearly shows, mf is not compiled with X support in. And in fact, 0.9.980706-1 appears to be the single version where X is compiled in. After an upgrade to the current one in potato I get the same message.
You will need to ask the package maintainer or compile a mf for yourself. Given the debian packaging it's not too difficult, but will require a fair amount of disk space and patience, depending on your hardware. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. --unknown source
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