[R] Ubuntu Linux and X11

[Oleg Sklyar]

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:
> 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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