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In article <a2vp24$ns2$1@news.efn.org>, Daniel Overbay wrote:
> 
> Tim Mann wrote in message ...
>>The clocks are the line in a huge font above the board that starts out
>>saying something like "White 5:00 Black 5:00".  You don't have to say
>>"-clockMode True" -- that is the default.
> 
> all I see is a line with maybe 10 small squares on it...highlighting whose
> move it is...after moving
> then it switches to the other half of the screen highlighting another 10
> squares ....there is  no text...saying anything....I've tried changing the
> size of all my screen fonts in KDE but it's still the
> same...
> 
> there is an option for Xboard to use a certain font for the clock....but
> every different thing I use I
> get an error message....no such pattern or something....

OK.  The problem is that you have some bogus font on your system that
matches the default clockFont pattern
(-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*), and you didn't know a
valid font name to specify instead.  You should try to find the bad
helvetica font and get rid of it, but unfortunately I can't help with
that.  A stopgap solution should be to say -clockFont fixed.  That
will put the clocks in a small, fixed-width font that all X
installations should have as a last resort fallback.

The "xlsfonts" command will show all font names installed on your
system.  It will spew a lot of output, so do "xlsfonts | less".  This
may help you find a better font to use.

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Tim Mann  usenet@tim-mann.org  http://www.tim-mann.org/