Re: Installing local/individual GTK

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

"J. Davison de St. Germain" <dav cs utah edu> writes:

> PPS. I'm trying to install it locally because our program that links
> against the older/system installed libs exhibits strange behavior and
> also to learn about the GTK system.  The strange behavior is this:
>
> The program comes up but when I try to bring up a menu (which needs a
> font) it "freezes" up.  After about 4 minutes, it returns printing out
> a message that says something like "font not found, please look at
> your .fonts.conf file... etc."  I have
> /usr/local/lib/pango/1.2.0/modules (which have a bunch of .so's in it)
> in my .fonts.conf file.  (BTW, a .fonts.cahce-1 files is created with
> that path in it.)  I've searched the web trying to find out how
> to make this work, but I can't find anything.  It is unclear to me how
> all these pieces fit together and I can't find a lot of docs on all
> the different pieces.  Perhaps solving this problem is easier than the
> installing of GTK.  Any help on this problem is also greatly
> appreciated.  Thanks again in advance.

It should be sufficient to make sure that there is at least one
useable font installed in the directory configured in
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf or ~/.fonts.conf. You also need to run fc-cache
once (as root for globally installed font files).


Sven