Re: How add a path to fonts to xset?

On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 11:31 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
Paul Smith wrote:
I am trying to get Mathematica 6.0.3 to work. When I try to run it,
I get the following:

$ xset: bad font path element (#23), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax

Any ideas?

Well, since F8 or F9, the X font server isn't installed or enabled by
default. So perhaps it's the 3rd item in the possible causes that's
biting you?

It's from F9. And in any case xset still works (i.e. the X server
effectively takes over what xfs used to do, as I understand it).

poc

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