Re: Getting fonts for pango

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com> writes:

> In trying to bring up Nautilus, I wasn't seeing anything in the canvas area,
> so I decided to try the libgnomecanvas canvas demo as a reality check.
> 
> When I tun the demo, it can't find any fonts. I get lots of warnings from
> pango about pangoft2 not finding fonts and not finding a fontalias file.
> 
> What's wrong? What should I be doing to ensure that pango has a suitable set
> of fonts so I can continue with Nautilus development?

Look at gtk+/docs/README.linux-fb and follow the instructions
there for setting up your ~/.pangorc and ~/.pangoft2_aliases.

Alex is working on fixing this problem so PangoFT2 shares
font configuration with the Xft library.

Regards,
                                        Owen