<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I come to the conclusion that it must be a Catalina problem with X11 fonts (directory access rights or something in that direction).<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When I run the program bsvc locally under macOS (catalina 15.5.6) the application starts and has no font problem at all.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It seems to be a problem with the remote client accessing the X11-server.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—</div><div class="">Christoph</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class="">
<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 22.08.2020 um 11:23 schrieb Peter West <<a href="mailto:lists@pbw.id.au" class="">lists@pbw.id.au</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On my Mojave installation, there’s am MS Reference Sans Serif.<div class=""><br class="">
<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 22 Aug 2020, at 6:32 pm, Andrew Udvare <<a href="mailto:audvare@gmail.com" class="">audvare@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 02:37 Christoph Kukulies <<a href="mailto:kuku@kukulies.org" class="">kuku@kukulies.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">I’m running a tk/tcl app on my FreeBSD box that has the font „MS Sans Serif“ wired in.<div class="">This leads to an X11-error when starting the application (bsvc) with my macOS (catalina 15.5.6) as the server:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(59,35,34);background-color:rgb(215,211,183)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">$ bsvc</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(59,35,34);background-color:rgb(215,211,183)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(59,35,34);background-color:rgb(215,211,183)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""> Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(59,35,34);background-color:rgb(215,211,183)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""> Serial number of failed request: 42</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(59,35,34);background-color:rgb(215,211,183)" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""> Current serial number in output stream: 59</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Is there a way to install the missing font using a macport? Or what is the closest standard X11 font that can be used instead of the MS font?</span></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span style="font-family:sans-serif" class="">That font should be included with macOS as it has been since Leopard. It's possibly named slightly differently.</span><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span style="font-family:sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span style="font-family:sans-serif" class="">The closest font is probably Helvetica but your app has the MS font hard coded.</span></div><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">—</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class="">Christoph</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>
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