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Posts: 28 | Thanked: 8 times | Joined on Mar 2008
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If I run xfontsel from the Debian chroot cmd prompt, it says that only
4 fonts are installed. If I run it inside LXDE, then I have all the usual suspects.

I'm guessing that's because the font's are not being seen by Maemos Xserver. Does anyone know where to put them / how to add them so that they are seen by the 'internal' Xserver.

I ran across that whilst playing with the USB mouse drivers from another thread. It seems that LXDE and the Xserver that qole is using have been hardcoded (not by him, I understand) only to accept input from /dev/event[0-2]). Using the USB mouse drivers with them gives some nasty letter droppings (q's if I recall).

However, if you start your favorite app from the debian chroot command prompt (after su user...) then you are using the maemo X server, and the mouse drivers work perfectly (middle mouse clicks for Xemacs!). If I understand some of the other topics in this thread correctly, I might also be able to 'debbie' them, but I haven't tried yet.

But, fonts are missing.

I think (but am not sure) that this might be related to some nasty flickering on boxes, but it might also be related to something else I have to check into with the Xaw libs. It also tends to peg the processor... But, it's Xemacs on my 810!

I've tried a few ideas thus far, but no joy in the fonts. Any ideas?

Thanks

P.S. Thanks again qole!

P.P.S. When you are playing around with adding and moving X fonts on your maemo partition. Don't accidentally delete /usr/share/X11 on an N810. It's not fun. Trust me.