[R-SIG-Mac] X11 problem after migration to Leopard

Benilton Carvalho bcarvalh at jhsph.edu
Tue Mar 18 20:12:36 CET 2008


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first session might be useful.
b

On Mar 18, 2008, at 3:11 PM, Martin Eklund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After migrating to Leopard I have problems with X11 when sunning R
> from the command line (which I prefer). I acknowledge that this most
> likely is not an R issue, but I thought that somebody else on this
> list might have had the same problem and has a nice solution to  
> offer...
>
> When trying to plot something in R from the command line (it works
> however from the R GUI) I get the following error message:
>
> ===========================================
> Error in X11() :
>   could not find any X11 fonts
> Check that the Font Path is correct.
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: In X11() :
>   locale not supported by Xlib: some X ops will operate in C locale
> 2: In X11() : X cannot set locale modifiers
> ===========================================
>
> So, it seems like R cannot find the fonts. Issuing xset -q in the
> terminal generates the following output:
>
> ===========================================
> Keyboard Control:
>   auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
>   auto repeat delay:  660    repeat rate:  25
>   auto repeating keys:  00ffffffffffff7f
>                         00ffffffffffffff
>                         ffffffffffffffff
>                         ffffffffffffffff
>   bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
> Pointer Control:
>   acceleration:  2/1    threshold:  4
> Screen Saver:
>   prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
>   timeout:  600    cycle:  600
> Colors:
>   default colormap:  0x21    BlackPixel:  0    WhitePixel:  16777215
> Font Path:
>   /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/X11/
> lib/X11/fonts/OTF,/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11/lib/X11/ 
> fonts/
> 100dpi/,/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
> Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled
> PMS (Energy Star):
>   Display is not capable of DPMS
> Font cache:
>   Server does not have the FontCache Extension
> ===========================================
>
> To me the font path in this output seems correct.
>
> I have disabled all DISPLAY settings that I previously had in
> my .bash_profile and my PATH variable is set according to: export  
> PATH=
> $PATH:/usr/local/bin:/Applications:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/X11/lib:.
>
> Any suggestions about how to fix this problem is greatly appreciated!
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Martin.
>
> ========================================
> Martin Eklund
> PhD Student
> Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences
> Uppsala University, Sweden
> Ph: +46-18-4714281
>
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