Re: gtk and fonts on OS X

[Paolo Costabel <paolo zebradevelopment com>]

A bit off topic, but I think you might be interested in this project:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-cocoa/

It's a port of Gtk+ 1.2 to cocoa native. I'm still working on it, but 
there is quite a lot of functionality already in.

Allin Cottrell wrote:

> I'm able to build and run my gtk app just fine on OS X 10.2.4 plus 
> fink.  But I'd like to make the app available to people running OS X 
> 10.3 Panther, with Apple's X11 but without fink.
>
> I've made what is intent a stand-alone disk image (my app plus all the 
> required gtk libraries).  But I'm hearing that the app won't run on 
> account of a problem with fonts
>
>   Cannot open fallback font, nothing to do
>
> That is, gtk/pango can't find anything to map to Monospace or Sans.
>
> Does anyone with OS X experience have any idea what might be 
> wrong/missing here?  (The systems in question do have X11 installed.)