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Ubuntu Linux and X11

8 messages · Dirk Eddelbuettel, Yuelin Li, Oleg Sklyar +2 more

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Thomas Preuth
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Hello,

i have a problem with creating histograms and plots under ubuntu linux.
After creating a vector "test" i want to make a histogram, but the following
error appears:
Error in X11() : could not find any X11 fonts
Check that the Font Path is correct.


Does anybody know this problem and a solution for this?

Thanks in advance,
Thomas
Dirk Eddelbuettel
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On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:53:39PM +0100, preuth at slf.ch wrote:
Hm, you didn't by chance built this yourself and thereby ignored the
BIG FAT warnings about x11 headers not being found ?   

Take a shortcut, install the (backported) Ubuntu packages from any
of the CRAN mirrors and then sit back and enjoy a nice hist() chart?

Dirk
Yuelin Li
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If you are using edgy, try changing your FontPath settings in
/etc/X11/xorg.conf (mine listed below).

Reboot, and check to see there are no warnings about missing font
files in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

Yuelin.



Section "Files"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/OTF"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/CID"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
        # path to defoma fonts
        FontPath	"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 05:05:35PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:53:39PM +0100, preuth at slf.ch wrote:
> i have a problem with creating histograms and plots under ubuntu linux.
   > After creating a vector "test" i want to make a histogram, but the following
   > error appears:
   > > hist (test)
   > Error in X11() : could not find any X11 fonts
   > Check that the Font Path is correct.
   > 
   > 
   > Does anybody know this problem and a solution for this?
   
   Hm, you didn't by chance built this yourself and thereby ignored the
   BIG FAT warnings about x11 headers not being found ?   
   
   Take a shortcut, install the (backported) Ubuntu packages from any
   of the CRAN mirrors and then sit back and enjoy a nice hist() chart?
   
   Dirk
   
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Oleg Sklyar
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The problem occurs after updating from Dapper to Edgy. Dapper had font 
paths: /usr/share/X11/fonts and Edgy, to make the whole font system 
unified, moved X11 fonts to /usr/share/fonts/X11. Oleg
Yuelin Li wrote:

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On 17 February 2007 at 11:23, Oleg Sklyar wrote:

        
| The problem occurs after updating from Dapper to Edgy. Dapper had font 
| paths: /usr/share/X11/fonts and Edgy, to make the whole font system 
| unified, moved X11 fonts to /usr/share/fonts/X11. Oleg

Good point.  But on my systems , the upgrade only affected Emacs which
'looked ugly' but still worked.  In other words, nothing "failed" after the
Dapper / Edgy upgrade. In particular, R -- which I use day-in and day-out on
Ubuntu at work -- worked just fine.  So I am still puzzled as to exactly how
one can manage to get R so scrippled on Ubuntu that graphics fail...

Dirk

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Oleg Sklyar
    

    

      
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After I updated to Edgy 'convert' of ImageMagick stopped working as well 
as its 'display' API command and also nedit stopped functioning -- all 
because of X11 fonts. And in fact, I now recall that I had for while no 
test in my R plots, I thought some R options were set wrongly. But 
correcting the paths in xorg.conf solved all these issues.

Oleg

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Thomas Preuth
    

    

      
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Well after installing a debian package of the cran mirors and reconfiguning the
xorg.conf as yuelin li suggested the hist() and other graphical commands now
work properly.
Thanks to the fruitful contributions.
Thomas

Quoting Oleg Sklyar <osklyar at ebi.ac.uk>:

            

      
      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    
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      Barry Rowlingson
    

    

      
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Oleg Sklyar wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
I think I changed the font path in the X config file *and* added a 
symlink of /usr/share/X11/fonts to point to /usr/share/fonts/X11 in case 
any other package had this coded into it.

Barry