Re: Default font error

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

"Andrew E. Makeev" <andrew solvo ru> writes:

> I've installed RH7.3 on my machine.
> The installation CDs contain GTK+ v2.0.2 kit (all compiled for gcc2.96).
> 
> Everything was fine with it.
> 
> Then I've installed gcc3.2, and built all latest GTK sources:
> GLIB-2.0.6
> ATK-1.0.3
> PANGO-1.0.4
> GTK+-2.0.6
> 
> all of them with default /usr/local prefix.
> I've made these changes:
> - .bash_profile:
>   export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
>   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
>   export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
> - ld.so.conf:
>   + /usr/local/lib -> ldconfig
> 
> So, everything could be built and "working" well until that situation:
> 
> Once I've created and used my own gtkrc-file settings, then other
> programs (that didn't use this rc-file) started to drop these messages
> and abort on run-time.
> 
> ** (gtk-demo:28474): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Sans 10" falling
> back to "Sans 10"
> 
> ** (gtk-demo:28474): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Sans 10" falling
> back to "Sans 10"
> 
> ** (gtk-demo:28474): WARNING **: All font failbacks failed!!!!  (Excuse
> me, should it be "All font fallbacks failed!!!!"? :-))
> 
> But applications, that was built with old GTK+ (2.0.2), still are
> working well regardless I've used my rc-file or not.
> 
> In my rc-file I've changed font for all widgets with that line:
>   font_name = "Courier 12"
> 
> Also, I've noticed, that dialog font selection built on new sources did
> not show as many fonts (including that Sans one) as same dialog but
> built with old GTK+ version.

the differing behaviour is probably related to this change that
happened after gtk+-2.0.5:

Wed Jul 24 16:43:49 2002  Owen Taylor  <otaylor redhat com>

        * gtk/gtkrc.c docs/references/tmpl/gtkrc.sgml: Don't use
        GTK_RC_FILES, since it causes problems with what KDE (etc.)
        does to customize GTK+ themes, use GTK2_RC_FILES instead.
        (#88987)



Salut, Sven