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Package: xorg-xcalc
Version: 1.0.5-2

Depends upon xorg-fonts-100dpi and xorg-fonts-75dpi. Without these, there is:

Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-symbol-*-*-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontStruct

and the xcalc key-pad symbols for "pi" and "square-root" do not display properly. FontStruct is for an old-style server-side font, and the warning is from Xlib, as I understand, generated because of the missing font.

This font is in file symb12.pcf.gz, in each directory /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ and
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/, which is from each of the xorg-fonts-100dpi and xorg-fonts-75dpi packages.

The Xorg server can be restarted to pick-up these directories in the font path, shown by "xset q". Otherwise, the font paths can be added manually with:

xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/
xset fp rehash

Similarly old X applications also depend upon these fonts.

Also, "http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xcalc/" is a better up-stream URL for xorg-xcalc, rather than just the generic "http://xorg.freedesktop.org/".


James