Re: gnome-terminal crashing because of fonts

[Stephen Kuhn <stephen kuhn gmx net>]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 03:38, Dimitar Haralanov wrote:
> 	Hi,
> 
> 	I am having a problem where gnome-terminal 2.2.0 and 2.2.1 crash every
> time when started because it claims, the Sans font is not found. I have
> filed a bug on bugzilla.gnome.org (#107285) and there are other bugs on
> this but the developers claim that this is problem with Xft.
> 	The bug that I am talking about has the following symptoms: on startup,
> gnome terminal displays the following message on the screen:
> 
> ** (gnome-terminal:22011): WARNING **: Failed to load Xft font pattern
> "Sans-8:slant=0:weight=100", falling back to default font.
> 
> and then, it prompty crashes and the crash dialog is displayed. The only
> lead that gnome developers have given me is that gnome-terminal might be
> using Xft1 instead of Xft2. I have Xft2 and it seems to work with all
> other Gnome 2.2 applications.
> 
> 	Has anyone been able to figure this one out?
> 	Thanx
> 		-- Mitko

I found that after my Gnome 2.2.0 started working AFTER MONTHS, I
continuously have to delete a file called ~/home/username/.fonts.cache -
over and over again - THEN my apps work AFTER taking FOREVER to
load...it's gotten so frustrating in trying to work with Gnome 2.2.0
that I've literally given up and am sticking with KDE until Gnome gets
back to where they were with v.1.4+ ; there's way too much incongruity
to stick with it anymore - and I've got work to do.

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