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Howdy!
I managed to get Arch installed on my machine(after some nasty NIC issues...) and got x to run splendidly if I log in as root. When attempting to startx as a user, I'm assaulted
with a number of "could not init font path element"
errors. Been chasing the prob for hours and hope i can
find some advice here.
Thanking you all in advance.....
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First questions out of the way:
You're trying to startx with the same window manager as root and as user? good to make sure the problem is related to X and not the wm. Have you tried different window managers?
are you using x.org or xfree86?
post your xorg.conf/xfree86.conf, or at least parts of it related to font paths.
Dusty
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OK, let's see......
I'll post the config text with font paths at the end....
I'm really green with linux so please bear with me... i do no know, nor do I
know where to find the window manager being used. I've browsed the config
files that I've been intimate with so far and no luck. I do know that I'm using XFree86 and had to do a bit of twiddling to get root to startx. If you could tell where to find which window manager I'm using for each account, I promise to be more prepared next time.
I refuse to log back into windows, I'll learn this if it kills me.......
BTW thanx for the quick response!
config lines.....
# FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
# FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"
# The module search path. The default path is shown here.
# ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/local"
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I do know that I'm using XFree86 and had to do a bit of twiddling to get root to startx. If you could tell where to find which window manager I'm using for each account, I promise to be more prepared next time.
startx looks in .xinitrc in your home directory. as root, compare /root/.xinitrc to /home/username/.xinitrc. First thing is to get those two files looking the same so you know you're testing the same thing as root user and as normal user.
The font paths *look* ok.
Dusty
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Well, that appeared to be exactly it. I won't make that mistake again.....
Thanks loads!
Your time and effort is much appreicated!
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