Re: Font Problem

[James Murff <jmurff pacbell net>]

> Hi;
>
> Only got one hint. I ran all the various font caching tools.
> It didn't help until I "setenv GDK_USE_XFT". Now stuff runs but
> crashes after a few mouse clicks with X11 errors. I still get lots
> of 'can't find font <xxx> falling back to <yyy>' messages,
>
> Anyway, VDK seems to work fine so I will try it like this and see 
> what's up.
> Otherwise, I will just use FLTK.
>
> FWIW, I am running Redhat 7.3, WindowMaker 0.80.2, and XFree86 4.2.1.
> Would love to hear any other ideas. (Kernel:2.4.18-18.7.x)
> (FreeType: 2.1.4rc1, PkgConfig: 0.14.0, Pango: 1.2.1, GLib: 2.2.1
> GTK+: 2.2.1, ATK: 1.2.0)
>
> Thanks for your time.
> -Jim
>
>
> On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 02:43  AM, Cupitt, John wrote:
>
> > Have you run "fc-cache" to build fontconfig's list of fonts? 
> > Forgetting
> > this step caused similar problemns for me.
> >
> > John
> >
> > James Murff wrote:
> > > I saw a reference to this in the list archive but no answers. I have
> > the
> > > latest everything installed and compiled. (gtk2.2.1, glib, atk,
> > pango).
> > > When i try to run the programs in test (test* or even gtk-demo) i get
> > a
> > > core dump after failing to find a font. (Nimbus was causing problem
> > and
> > > then I installed the TrueType fonts and now it is failing on 
> > > Verdana).
> >
> > > xlsfont shows about a hundred Verdanas though. Is case an issue? Is
> > > there a simple fix that someone knows? Did I do something dumb? 
> > > Thanks
> >
> > > for any help!