XTerm exits immediatly with self-compiled xorg

[Dan Nicholson]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Michel Dänzer
<michel at tungstengraphics.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 18:59 +0200, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
>>
>> I am currently trying to build xorg from git, and it mostly works
>> except some font stuff.
>>
>> When I try to start xterm it quits immediatly with the following messages:
>>
>> The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:^M
>> > Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols^M
>> >                   Ignoring extra symbols^M
>> Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server^M
>> Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct^M  <--------- Xterm
>
> I think you need to build xserver with --disable-builtin-fonts.

Or just tell xterm to use XFT. Try

xterm -fa Monospace

or

echo '*VT100*faceName: Monospace' >> ~/.Xresources

--
Dan