RE: [LINUX5250] HOWTO update

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> Also xlsfonts keeps giving me an error "unable to open display ''".  Man
> doesn't help as no examples.  Don't know if this is relevant to your HOWTO
> update.
>

IMHO, this is not relevant to the HOWTO.  We cannot provide support for
people who can't get XFree86 to work properly on their systems... that's
just going a bit too far.

xlsfonts is a part of XFree86 (or whichever X11 server you're running, but
XFree86 is the one that comes with Linux, *BSD, etc etc)  It connects to
your X server and determines what fonts it will display, and prints them out.
The error your receiving means that it can't connect to your X server.

Most likely, you're using ssh/telnet to run this on a different system,
rather than doing it on your local system.  If you are doing it on your
local system, then X must not be running?

You could try setting the DISPLAY env variable to the host you want to
query, such as 127.0.0.1:0.0  that will tell xlsfonts (and other software
writing for X11) which server & display you want to query the fonts from.

>
> Also, Section 5 Using Fonts (5.2) mentions a .Xdefaults file.
>
> 2)  Does this also go in each users home directory?  Tried this (user home
> dir) with:
>
>     xt5250*Font : 7x13
>
> with no change.

Yes, that should be in your home directory.  But, if you're not running X,
in won't help you much :)

>
> 3)  What other (besides 7x13) might be used.
>
> I am a newbe trying to get a larger font displayed under a 1024x768 desktop
> (RH8).  800x600 is not an option (per user). 8-(

That's what xlsfonts will tell you.  :)