xset: bad font path element (#58), possible causes are:

[J S]

>On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, J S wrote:
>
> > $ mkaliasfont helvetica arial > fonts.alias
> > + [ 2 -ne 2 ]
> > + xlsfonts
> > + grep ^-[^-]*-helvetica-
> > + sed -e s/^-[^-]*\(-helvetica\(-.*\)\)$/-compat-arial\2 -*\1/
> >
> > $ ls /usr/x11r6/lib/x11/fonts/test
> > fonts.alias  fonts.dir
>
>$ cat fonts.dir
>0
>
>It seems you need at least one real font in that directory.
>I tried and was successful after adding a .ttf font and running
>mkfontscale "$fontdir"
>mkfontscale -b -s "$fontdir"
>
>removing the entries from fonts.dir produced a similar bahaviour
>
>bye
>	ago
>--

Thanks Alex,

Much appreciated.
Amazingly that worked. I never used to have to do that though.

Thanks again,

JS.