XTerm exits immediatly with self-compiled xorg

[Michel Dänzer]

On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 18:59 +0200, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> 
> I am currently trying to build xorg from git, and it mostly works
> except some font stuff.
> 
> When I try to start xterm it quits immediatly with the following messages:
> 
> The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:^M
> > Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols^M
> >                   Ignoring extra symbols^M
> Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server^M
> Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct^M  <--------- Xterm

I think you need to build xserver with --disable-builtin-fonts.

(FWIW, I don't think 'only builtin fonts or only non-builtin fonts' is a
useful choice)


> Any ideas how I could fix that, or why xorg does not use the font
> configuration from the productive xorg in /etc/font/font.conf (the new
> one is in /opt/xorg)?

/etc/fonts/ is configuration for the fontconfig library, not the X
server.


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