<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I filed this a while ago (<a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28803">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28803</a>) for a user who reported it to me through XQuartz (<a href="http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/325">http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/325</a>) since I'm pretty clueless about a bunch of font magic.  Since I finally have time to work through my XQuartz queue, I thought I'd bring it up and hopefully make some progress...<div><br></div><div>Put ZapfDingbats.ttf (contact me for it due to licensing concerns) into ~/.fonts, then:</div><div><div><br></div><div>cd ~/.fonts</div><div>mkfontscale</div><div>mkfontdir</div><div>xset fp+ ${HOME}/.fonts</div><div>xlsfonts | grep dingbats</div><div><br></div><div>You should see:</div><div>-misc-zapf dingbats-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1</div><div><br></div><div>Now try running:</div><div>xfd -fn "-misc-zapf dingbats-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1"</div><div><br></div><div>You'll get:</div><div>X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for</div><div>operation)</div><div>  Major opcode of failed request:  45 (X_OpenFont)</div><div>  Value in failed request:  0x80000b</div><div>  Serial number of failed request:  21</div><div>  Current serial number in output stream:  22</div><div><br></div><div>---</div></div><div><br></div><div>What is going wrong here?  Any thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>