Ratpoison - Failed to open font

sdaffer · 2019-12-04 19:13:57

I've been working through this problem for hours, and have yet to come up with anything. Very new, but it seems this is the place for people like me.

I can run awesome wm by using

 exec awesome

in my ~/.xinitrc file, but when I try to run ratpoison by using

 exec ratpoison

, I get this error:

 Failed to open font
ratpoison:globals.c:338: error: No Xft font available.
Xinit: connection to X server lost

Any ideas would greatly be appreciated.

Trilby · 2019-12-04 19:26:44

What is the result of `fc-match Mono-11`?

Last edited by Trilby (2019-12-04 19:28:41)

sdaffer · 2019-12-04 19:34:08

Command completed successfully, but the same results for startx with ratpoison as wm.

seth · 2019-12-04 20:12:16

Trilby wants to see the output of the command, not whether it can execute w/o error.

sdaffer · 2019-12-04 20:19:19

I apologize, no output at all.

seth · 2019-12-04 21:02:15

I assume you just don't have *any* font package installed at all? So install some. (DejaVu, Noto, Adobe Source, … whatever you like)

Trilby · 2019-12-05 00:28:50

Yup, you'd only get that error if there was no font to satisfy "Mono-11", which just about any font package could. The ratpoison package should probably depend on the ttf-font meta package to ensure at least one is installed.

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Ratpoison - Failed to open font

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