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hentaro

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Registered: 2018-08-19

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[SOLVED] Errors are displayed on my xscreensaver

I have a problem. Errors are displayed on my xscreensaver when I locked my screen. How could I fix this problem?

My desktop environment is LXDE and LXDM.

Thank you.

xscreensaver: unable to find any alternatives to "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-180-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
xscreensaver: unable to find any alternatives to "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
xscreensaver: unable to find any alternatives to "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
xscreensaver: unable to find any alternatives to "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
xscreensaver: unable to find any alternatives to "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
xscreensaver: unable to find any alternatives to "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-80-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
xscreensaver: unable to find any alternatives to "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1"

[image=errors]https://www.dropbox.com/s/8h2txu57g7mu8ku/errors.jpg[/image]

Last edited by hentaro (2018-09-24 23:24:17)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Errors are displayed on my xscreensaver

The error is pretty clear.  Either adjust your config to specify a font you'd prefer, or install fonts that'd provide helvetica.

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hentaro

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Re: [SOLVED] Errors are displayed on my xscreensaver

Thank you for your advice. I could fix some errors by installing adobe-base-14-fonts. Probably, there isn't Courier too. I couldn't fix it yet but It's same cause, right? Anyway, I was helped. Thank you very much.

gya82

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Registered: 2012-06-07

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Re: [SOLVED] Errors are displayed on my xscreensaver

I have same problem, but solved this:

Edit hidden file in home directory:
~/.xscreensaver

Change the option:
captureStderr: True
to
captureStderr: False
and
overlayStderr: True
to
overlayStderr: False

Save file then reboot my pc and not show problem, (my desktop environment xfce)

Last edited by gya82 (2018-09-19 09:22:21)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Errors are displayed on my xscreensaver

That's not a solution. You've a broken font config for xscreensaver and "fixed" it by suppressing the warning about that.
Ie. you did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddPQAJSm2cQ

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hentaro

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Re: [SOLVED] Errors are displayed on my xscreensaver

Thank you for your comment.  But, what should I do?

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Errors are displayed on my xscreensaver

Please do not delete your posts, strike them, if you want.
Now the thread has a logic gap.

If you get the same error as comment #1, you lack some fonts, so installing them should be a rational move, no?

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=xorg-fonts
at least one of the *dpi packages, perhaps the  misc one.

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hentaro

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Re: [SOLVED] Errors are displayed on my xscreensaver

Hmm, I already have xorg-fonts. And I installed some fonts. But, the below error doesn't disappear. Do you guys know a font that includes courier?

xscreensaver: unable to find any alternatives to "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-iso8859-1"

Thank you.

Last edited by hentaro (2018-09-24 14:39:30)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Errors are displayed on my xscreensaver

There's no package "xorg-fonts"…
Let's see:

pacman -Qs xorg-fonts

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hentaro

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Re: [SOLVED] Errors are displayed on my xscreensaver

I noticed that you mean now. I didn't have some font packages. The problem has resolved completely.

I ran this command.

sudo pacman -S xorg-fonts-100dpi xorg-fonts-75dpi xorg-fonts-alias xorg-fonts-cyrillic xorg-fonts-encodings xorg-fonts-misc xorg-fonts-type1

Thank you, seth.

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Re: [SOLVED] Errors are displayed on my xscreensaver

Please remember to mark your thread as solved by editing the first post and amending the topic title.

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