[Wylug-help] X fonts

[Stephen Patterson]

On 16 Jan 06, Dave Fisher (wylug-help at davefisher.co.uk) wrote:
> My Xorg.log (below) reports a "Fatal server error:
>   could not open default font 'fixed';".

> I'm afraid that the xfont system and its debian/ubuntu implementation
> are two of those things I've always planned to learn properly, but
> never quite got round to ... not least, because of their apparent
> complexity and my inability to find one good high level overview to start
> from.

If you're not running a font server, sounds like you just need to install the
xfonts-base package. I'd also suggest the xfonts-75dpi & xfonts-100dpi so you
have a few reasonably attractive fonts.

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