Re: ymessenger gtk font issues

[Jim George <jg014a8950 blueyonder co uk>]

On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 03:07, Pollywog wrote:
> On 2001.11.05 22:23 Jim George wrote:
> > I've recently installed SuSE 7.1 with the base versions of GNOME and KDE
> > for my wife.
> > 
> > She wanted ymessenger installed which I duely did, however whenever I
> > invoke it I get a segfault complaing of a NULL font in a gtk package.
> > 
> > Can someone give me an indication as to how to proceed to get this
> > working?
> > 
> 
> I have had some big problems with ymessenger on one machine but not the 
> other.
> It runs but crashes my desktop, but on my laptop running the same version 
> of Debian, no problems.
> Try gtkyahoo or kyahoo if you want fewer problems.  I use gtkyahoo, which 
> you can find from a search of Google.
> 
> --
<snip>
Rather than trying to fight yahoo, and rather than using gtkyahoo (which
would then restrict me to yahoo) I've downloaded/installed everybuddy
which (I have to say) is excellent.

Jim