on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:28:44AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > I've upgraded my laptop from stable to testing. In the process, I seem > to have versioned up to XFree86v4. Currently: > > - X display managers don't allow a session to start (see attached > error output). This is annoying, but not a biggie. startx works > fine. But I have been beating my head against the wall trying to > figure out what wdm's startup sequence is.
This still doesn't work, but I tend not to like DMs anyhow. I've
created the following bash function to expedite starting X from a shell,
with some smarts:
gostartx=()
{
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
disp=1;
else
disp=$1;
fi;
if test -f /tmp/.X${disp}-lock; then
if test -d /proc/$( cat /tmp/.X${disp}-lock | sed -e '/ */s///'
); then
echo "X session already running on display :$disp" 1>&2;
exit 1;
else
echo -e "Removing stale lockfile...\c";
if rm /tmp/.X1-lock; then
echo "Succes";
else
echo "Failed" 1>&2;
return 1;
fi;
fi;
fi;
sudo -v;
exec nohup startx -- :$disp >.startx.${disp}.log 2>&1 &
}
> - Mouse: how do you configure three-button emulation for a two-button
> touchpad with V4? This is driving me nuts.
Resolved. The trick appears to be the line:
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, configured by running:
$ dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 -plow
(Thanks, Norm).
> - Fonts. I've got truetype fonts and had been using xfstt.
Fonts are still broken.
- I've installed mkttfdir and run it on /usr/share/fonts/truetype.
- I've added to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on
# these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "ddc"
Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "pex5"
Load "record"
Load "xie"
Load "bitmap"
Load "freetype" # ** this guy **
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
Load "int10"
EndSection
- I've tried running with and without xfs.
- I've added to /etc/X11/fs/config the line (escapes added):
catalogue = /usr/share/fonts/truetype,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,\
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,\
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,\
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,\
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
...but no TT fonts.
:-(
I've also downloaded Joerg Pommnitz's ttmkfdir utility, but don't know
how to modify the Makefile to use libttf.so. Hint?
TIA.
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