-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 03:54:26PM +0000, Curt wrote: > On 2016-03-02, <to...@tuxteam.de> <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 01:09:54PM +0000, Curt wrote: > >> > >> Trying to run the 'display' command from ImageMagick without an argument > >> gives the following "error" (the app does not open at all): > >> > >> curty@einstein:~$ display > >> display.im6: unable to load font > >> `-microsoft-verdana-*-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*': Resource temporarily > >> unavailable @ error/xwindow.c/XBestFont/834. > > > > ImageMagick uses X resources. So perhaps try setting it either in your > > local ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources or in the system-global > > /etc/X11/app-defaults/ImageMagick something like > > > > ImageMagick: <your font spec> > > > > Note: the "ImageMagick" at the start is just a (most probably wrong) > > guess. You can find our which class the thing thinks it is by running > > xprop and clicking on a window. The colon and TAB separator are > > important. > > If I had window. As I said, the app does not open at all. No window to > click on. This is why I'm mentioning the message at all. If the > application opened and ran correctly I wouldn't be mentioning a little > message here. I only care about it because it seems related to a failure > of the application to run whatsoever.
To slowly crawl near, try display -font '-b&h-*-*-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' (I'm assuming you've got some b&h fonts, like lucida -- otherwise use a font spec of an existing font; in a pinch, make sure you have the program xfontsel and you can do: display -font $(xfontsel -print) then select one suitable font, click "select" then "quit") regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlbXQw4ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kb6XgCdGRb4QZXFNrfMKwofzUejaXf1 9PcAn0aI5HiDlaJPakhTP35fqFJW+N0G =trSa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
