Re: Fonts gone in icewm

[moseley@hank.org]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:19:32PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:

> At this moment, (the Sid version of) icewm seems to be chock-full
> of bugs. Apart from the usual window focus problems

(I don't seem to notice that problem -- except maybe when Mozilla is 
running focus quits following the mouse).

> The artwiz font file itself is called snap.pcf, in the directory
> /usr/share/icewm/themes/Infadel2. To make it available to icewm
> you should run (as root) mkfontdir in that directory. This creates
> a fonts.dir file. Restart X. Now the artwiz font is known to icewm
> but somehow NOT TO X! Icewm apparently has its own font finding
> mechanism. So you cannot see the font in xfontsel.

Well, thank you very much.

As I've expressed, what I find frustrating is not being able to 
figure this kind of problem out.  Seems like I should have been able to 
see how that fonts.dir file was not found (I suppose strace would have 
shown that, if I had know to look for that....)

> In the meantime, despite all its bugs, icewm is still my favourite
> window manager..

You mean there's others? ;)


Thanks for solving this problem,


-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org