Re: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct

[Thomas Dickey <dickey%his.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Caloro Maurizio wrote:

> Hello Netbsd members
> i add "nil2" "courier-medium" fonts for xterm and ElvisX11. i think
> was successful but if i start Xterm / elvis stil the Warning appair.
>
> Please what are me problem here ?, which file i missed here to
> configure the right font.
> thanks
> MC
>
> NetBSD Stern 5.0 NetBSD 5.0 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Apr 26 18:50:08 UTC 2009  
> builds%b6.netbsd.org@localhost:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-RELEASE/i386/200904260229Z
> -obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
>
>
> pkg_add font-misc-misc
> mkfontdir       /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/misc
>
> cat             /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir
> [Snip] - over 100 entries
> nil2.pcf.gz -misc-nil-medium-r-normal--2-20-75-75-c-10-misc-fontspecific
>
> fc-cache -v
> [Snip] -[please, why appair here only 55 fonts ?]

ongoing lobotomization of the fonts code by xorg hackers...

> /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/misc: skipping, existing cache is valid: 55 fonts, 0 
> dirs
>
> Stern# xterm &
> Stern# Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct

which version of xterm are you running?  (I made fixes earlier this year).

xterm's using nil2 for the unclutter feature, which can be disabled.
It'll recover if the font doesn't exist (in current versions), but
may still warn.

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