Re: large gdk_font_ref problem

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

"W. Adam Foran" <waforan@pathcom.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> On 9 Feb 1999, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > 
> > What happens if you run:
> > 
> >  xfd -fn -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
> > 
> > Regards,
> >                                         Owen
> 
> adam@willie:~ xfd -fn -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
> xfd:  no font to display
> 
> Hmmmm. I assume that this isn't what I was hoping for...

No. Though it was what I was hoping for. ;-)

Probably, either the fontpath in your XFree86Config
is incorrect, or somehow your font directories were
corrupted. (You can run rpm -V on the font RPM's
to check the latter)

I've committed a fix to GTK+ that it will fall back
to "fixed" if it can't find the default helvetica.
I've been assured that if "fixed" is not present,
the X server will not even start.

"fixed" is sort of ugly though, so you probably want
figure out what is wrong...

Regards,
                                        Owen