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dokurnon

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From: United States

Registered: 2011-12-24

Posts: 13

Xboard not Launching

Whenever I launch xboard, I get the error "xboard: no fonts match pattern -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*".  I have not been able to find a font that matches this pattern.  Anyone else have this problem.  Thanks

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Xboard not Launching

Search the man page and pick some other-clockFont -coordFont etc. font.

Edit:
I found a better way:
Edit /etc/xboard.conf, add e.g.

-font -*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

and change

-firstChessProgram fairymax
-secondChessProgram fairymax

to

-firstChessProgram gnuchess
-secondChessProgram gnuchess

After making these changes xboard starts properly and ~/.xboardrc got automatically created with

-clockFont "size108:-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-1"
-font "size108:-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-1"
-coordFont "size108:-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-1"

If I comment these lines out, I get the helvetica errors again.

Last edited by karol (2012-02-01 00:43:11)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Xboard not Launching

The issues have been fixed: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28204
Please update xboard and try running it again.