[maemo-developers] Problems running xephyr on SUSE 10.2

[From: Michael R. Head]

On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 02:15 -0400, anurag sogal wrote:
> I have been trying to make Xephyr work with SUSE. However when i give
> this command:-
> 
>  Xephyr :2 -host-cursor -screen 800x480x16 -dpi 96 -ac
> 
> the screen just comes and disappears. and this is the message that I
> get on the shell:- 
> 
> anurag:/usr/bin # Xephyr :2 -host-cursor -screen 800x480x16 -dpi 96
> -ac
> error opening security policy file /etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy

Sounds like you need to have this file available. I'll attach the copy
that I found on my system, but presumably some SuSE package has this
file in it. I don't know how to do searches to find what package to
install on SuSE, though.

> Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc, removing
> from list! 
> Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic,
> removing from li                              st!
> Could not init font path
> element /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled, removing
> from list! 
> Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
> removing                               from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1, removing
> from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi, removing
> from list                              ! 
> Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi, removing
> from list!
> Could not init font path
> element /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueTyp
> e, removing from list!
> 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'

I think this is the major problem. You need the 'fixed' font which is
usually one of the default fonts installed. 

What's probably happening is that Xephyr isn't finding the basic font
folders. I'm not sure why, but I have heard of this happening in
general. In fact, when I searched for "could not open default font
'fixed'" I found a lot of pages that give a number of possible fixes. 

I'm not reproducing the problem here (I don't have any version of SuSE),
but you could try some of the fixes described.

> i am not sure whats going wrong. Also i could find SecurityPolicy
> file.
> 
> Please let me know how to proceed forward.
> 
> Thanks
> Anurag 
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