Re: gnomehide problems...

[George J Karabin <gkarabin pobox com>]

FWIW, I'm not seeing anything odd with the latest gnomehide. xawtv in
particular works just fine. I am running an updated X, though, a
nearly-4.2 snapshot.

On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 05:44, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot linuxfr dyndns org> writes:
> > There're a lot of applications that don't work anymore because of fonts
> > problems.
> > For example:
> > 
> > [ajacouto station ajacouto]$ xawtv -c /dev/video1 
> > This is xawtv-3.54, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.9-31)
> > /dev/video1 [v4l]: no overlay support
> > Warning: Cannot convert string
> > "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-semicondensed--39-*" to type FontStruct
> > Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown modifier name:   Config
> > Warning: ... found while parsing 'Config*Command.borderWidth:	0'
> > Warning: String to AcceleratorTable conversion encountered errors
> > Segmentation fault
> >
> 
> I really don't think this was just gnomehide. It must be some
> interaction with X updates or some other issue. "Works OK here."
> 
> That said, you were warned:
>   ftp://people.redhat.com/hp/gnomehide/README
> 
> If you want things to work more reliably you need to use the released
> Red Hat versions plus the official errata, _not_ gnomehide or
> rawhide. When using *hide you want to be prepared to do some debugging
> and troubleshooting and general misery-suffering.
> 
> If people want I can drop gnomehide back to some older versions.
> 
> Havoc
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