RE: [LINUX5250] HOWTO update

[George Wayne Gambill <ggambill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 15:51, Scott Klement wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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?
>
Actually, I'm not using ssh/telnet. I'm running KDE on a workstation. 
The problem turnsout to be that while X was running (Ctrl Alt F7) I
issued the command from CTRL Alt F2 (command line). Your comment made me
realize that it needs to be issued from a Terminal session from within X
(KDE).  Issuing it from a Terminal session, it works maybe to well (Lots
of Fonts). Thanks
 
> 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.  :)
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