Friends,

I am using Debian GNU/Linux Sid.

When I start `xmms' I get

** WARNING **: Failed to open font: "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*".

Similarly, when I start `gv' I get

Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-100-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct


Can you please recommend me some reading about fonts in Xorg? How can I find mappings from those X font names to some real files? (so that I will know which package I am missing or perhaps what to install)?

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On 03/08/07 04:01, Matej Kosik wrote:
> Friends,
>
> I am using Debian GNU/Linux Sid.
>
> When I start `xmms' I get
>
> ** WARNING **: Failed to open font: "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*".
>
> Similarly, when I start `gv' I get
>
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-100-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>
>
> Can you please recommend me some reading about fonts in Xorg? How
> can I find mappings from those X font names to some real files?
> (so that I will know which package I am missing or perhaps what
> to install)?

What TTF fonts do you have installed?

>
> Thank you

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Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 03/08/07 04:01, Matej Kosik wrote:
>> Friends,
>
>> I am using Debian GNU/Linux Sid.
>
>> When I start `xmms' I get
>
>> ** WARNING **: Failed to open font: "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*".
>
>> Similarly, when I start `gv' I get
>
>> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-100-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>
>
>> Can you please recommend me some reading about fonts in Xorg? How
>> can I find mappings from those X font names to some real files?
>> (so that I will know which package I am missing or perhaps what
>> to install)?
>
> What TTF fonts do you have installed?

The list of TTF fonts given by

find / -type f -name "*.ttf" -or -name "*.TTF"|tee ~/tmp/out

is

http://altair.dcs.elf.stuba.sk/~kosik/tmp/fonts.txt
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On 03/08/07 17:01, Matej Kosik wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 03/08/07 04:01, Matej Kosik wrote:
>>> Friends,
>>> I am using Debian GNU/Linux Sid.
>>> When I start `xmms' I get
>>> ** WARNING **: Failed to open font: "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*".
>>> Similarly, when I start `gv' I get
>>> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>>> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>>> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-100-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>>> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>>
>>> Can you please recommend me some reading about fonts in Xorg? How
>>> can I find mappings from those X font names to some real files?
>>> (so that I will know which package I am missing or perhaps what
>>> to install)?
>> What TTF fonts do you have installed?
>
> The list of TTF fonts given by
>
> find / -type f -name "*.ttf" -or -name "*.TTF"|tee ~/tmp/out
>
> is
>
> http://altair.dcs.elf.stuba.sk/~kosik/tmp/fonts.txt

Hmmm, not encouraging.

How about: COLUMNS=130 dpkg -l | grep ttf
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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:01:31 +0100
Matej Kosik <kosik@fiit.stuba.sk> wrote:

> Friends,
>
> I am using Debian GNU/Linux Sid.
>
> When I start `xmms' I get
>
> ** WARNING **: Failed to open font:
> "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*".
>
> Similarly, when I start `gv' I get
>
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type
> FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type
> FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-100-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type
> FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type
> FontStruct
>
>
> Can you please recommend me some reading about fonts in Xorg? How can
> I find mappings from those X font names to some real files? (so that
> I will know which package I am missing or perhaps what to install)?
>
> Thank you

I can't recommend a particular document, but if you browse through the
reference documentation[1] you should find something ful.

As for your problem with xmms ... the Helvetica font is included in the
xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-75dpi packages. Do you have at least one of
them installed?

1. http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#quick-reference


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Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 03/08/07 17:01, Matej Kosik wrote:
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> On 03/08/07 04:01, Matej Kosik wrote:
>>>> Friends,
>>>> I am using Debian GNU/Linux Sid.
>>>> When I start `xmms' I get
>>>> ** WARNING **: Failed to open font: "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*".
>>>> Similarly, when I start `gv' I get
>>>> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>>>> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>>>> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-100-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>>>> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>>>> Can you please recommend me some reading about fonts in Xorg? How
>>>> can I find mappings from those X font names to some real files?
>>>> (so that I will know which package I am missing or perhaps what
>>>> to install)?
>>> What TTF fonts do you have installed?
>> The list of TTF fonts given by
>
>> find / -type f -name "*.ttf" -or -name "*.TTF"|tee ~/tmp/out
>
>> is
>
>> http://altair.dcs.elf.stuba.sk/~kosik/tmp/fonts.txt
>
> Hmmm, not encouraging.
>
> How about: COLUMNS=130 dpkg -l | grep ttf

I have myself spoiled the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
(while I was playing with it to make dualhead and monitor cloning features working)
The paths were wrong. Now everything works again.

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Hi Ron,

Am 2007-03-08 08:31:06, schrieb Ron Johnson:
> > ** WARNING **: Failed to open font: "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*".
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-100-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct
>
> What TTF fonts do you have installed?

This font is a standard font and always installed
with "xfonts-75dpi" and "xfonts-100dpi".

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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