Re: 2.4 font problems...

[Greg Kurtzer <greg runlevelzero net>]

It turns out that all sorts of weird things happen when GTK_RC_FILES is not
defined in the users environment. ;) 

Where is this variable supposed to be set?


On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:06:15PM -0700, Greg Kurtzer told me:
> 
> I sent this earlier to the gnome-list, but someone mentioned it will be better
> received here.
> 
> Something else that I noticed is that if I log in with a failsafe term, I can
> strace the gnome-settings-daemon. Something I found interesting is that it
> never looked to the <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir> (as spec'ed in
> /etc/fonts/fonts.conf). It only goes to /root/.gnome2/share/fonts. I then
> decided to try to put the fonts in the above dir into my $USER font dir, and
> it still did not find them.
> 
> Something else weird was that if I started metacity, gnome-panel, and nautilus
> from the failsafe xterm I had my fonts. They went away when I started the
> settings daemon. When I killed the daemon, they came back. :o
> 
> I am assuming this is some sort of build error. All build logs can be found at:
> 
> http://runlevelzero.net/greg/caosity/packages/cAos-1/i386/creation/control-center-2.4.0-3.caos/
> 
> Any advice or information would be greatly helpful and appreciated!
> 
> Thanks!
> Greg
> 
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 03:34:56PM -0700, Greg Kurtzer told me:
> > I just built gnome2.4 from source into RPMS, and I am having a problem that I
> > can't track down.
> > 
> > I was able to get it going, but my control-panel RPM was missing several libs
> > (/usr/lib/bonobo and /usr/lib/window-manager). Once I repackaged this, and
> > installed it I seemed to have lost the default fonts! Literally, the fonts
> > are gone or are so small they appear to be only pixels. Chances are that these
> > were not working before, but when the control-panel started working it loaded
> > fonts that for some reason were not happy.
> > 
> > Without fonts I pull up gnome-font-properties and it seems that the only fonts 
> > that are working are:
> > 
> >    console
> >    fangsong ti
> >    fixed
> >    LucidaTyperwriter
> >    MiscFixed
> > 
> > Which are all bitmap fonts (/usr/share/fonts/bitmap-fonts/).
> > 
> > Xfs is running, and aimed at good directories with fonts.cache-1 and font.dirs 
> > and has no errors in syslog.
> > 
> > /etc/gnome/fonts/fontmap2 also is aimed at real fonts.
> > 
> > Of course I already tried removing all config files in ~, but that did not
> > help...
> > 
> > Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated!
> > 
> > THANKS!
> > 
> 
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