Re: error--> (error "unknown font type" "Xft")

[Petter Gustad <sawfish gustad com>]

From: Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>
Subject: Re: error--> (error "unknown font type" "Xft")
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 19:42:52 +0200

> Am Freitag, den 22.05.2009, 09:06 +0200 schrieb Petter Gustad:
>> I just installed the latest sawfish release sources(1) on my CentOS
>> 5.3 system at work. But I'm getting the following message when I try
>> to start it:
>> 
>> error--> (error "unknown font type" "Xft")
>> 
>> Where does sawfish specify the Xft fonts? Or what do I have to do in
>> order to make CentOS 5.3 handle the Xft font specification by sawfish?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Petter
>> 
>> 
>> 1)
>> librep-0.17.4
>> rep-gtk-0.18.5
>> sawfish-1.3.5.2
> 
> ..... do you have XFree86 or X.Org?
> 


; ls -l /usr/bin/X
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 18 18:23 /usr/bin/X -> Xorg


; Xorg -version

X Window System Version 7.1.1
Release Date: 12 May 2006
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-53.el5 x86_64 Red Hat, Inc.
Current Operating System: Linux dhcp-10-47-3-113
2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Mon May 11 07:04:58 EDT 2009
x86_64
Build Date: 21 January 2009
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.1.1-48.52.el5 
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present


Petter