Can't get evilwm to run.. Need help

RobK · 2007-10-17 12:57:08

I am using selectwm to select my window manager after running startx at the command line.

I have installed the evilwm from core. And have added /usr/bin/evilwm to my .selectwmrc file.

When I run eveilwm, it crashes X and complains "can't find a font to use: try starting with -fn fontname".

It sounds like there may be a missing dependency in the evilwm package. Are others having this problem?

Rob

gunnihinn · 2007-10-28 18:30:27

Yup, exact same problem. Same error message and all. I'm not using selectwm though, just plain startx.

Haven't got much in the way of a solution, though.

Last edited by gunnihinn (2007-10-28 18:31:26)

gunnihinn · 2007-10-28 18:49:22

Got it.

The problem was that xorg didn't have the 75dpi or 100dpi fonts installed in /usr/share/fonts, the problem was quickly fixed by typing

pacman -S xorg-fonts-100dpi

for me (75dpi may be better for you, the value closer to the output of "xdpyinfo | grep resolution" is the one you want), killing x and starting it again with Evilwm as the manager.

Hope this solves your problem.

abstracity · 2007-11-18 00:19:03

Thank you gunnihinn for your solution, it worked. Would somebody update this PKGBUILD to echo a message informing the user that either xorg-fonts-100dpi or xorg-fonts-75dpi have to be installed, if this has not been done so already? Another fundamental package may solve the problem but I can confirm the above method of installing xorg-fonts-100dpi worked.

scottro · 2012-06-14 12:46:50

5 years later, I had the same problem. I came to this thread and it fixed it. I'm not sure who maintains evilwm, but I had the same problem on other systems as well. (For example, built it on Fedora and it failed with the same error message).

As it was the first hit when I searched the error message, I figure it's worth mentioning that the same fix still works, even though the thread itself has been dead for years.

Pranavg1890 · 2012-10-18 15:30:51

Yeah , this works even in 2012!! By the way, evilwm is great wm. I love it. Thanks for solution.

gunnihinn · 2018-03-18 14:03:28

Here in 2018 I need the following font packages installed to avoid this problem:

xorg-font-util
xorg-font-utils
xorg-fonts-100dpi
xorg-fonts-75dpi
xorg-fonts-alias
xorg-fonts-encodings
xorg-fonts-misc
xorg-fonts-type1

As far as I can tell, the last two are not installed by default when I install xorg and need to be added by hand.

jasonwryan · 2018-03-18 14:59:00

Eleven year necrobump... https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

Closing

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#1 2007-10-17 12:57:08

Can't get evilwm to run.. Need help

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