Sid & Gnome, was: Re: Sid & Openoffice (user interface font not working)
Hi
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 07:49:35PM -0700, Warren Dodge wrote:
> Ah! So I'm not the only one! Here's what I found and how I fixed (hacked)
> it...
This did not work for me :(
The problem I have is this:
olalu@omni:~$ gnome-terminal
** (gnome-terminal:20703): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Sans 10" falling back to "Sans 10"
** (gnome-terminal:20703): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Sans 10" falling back to "Sans 10"
** (gnome-terminal:20703): WARNING **: All font failbacks failed!!!!
olalu@omni:~$
Same thing with a lot of other gnome programs.
Running mkfontdir on font directories do not help.
Regards,
// Ola
> Both XF86Config-4 and XftConfig contained font paths including the following:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype
> (among other path entries, including type1 and bitmapped fonts, etc.)
>
> The weird thing is that "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType" didn't contain any
> fonts. It only has the following files:
> encodings.dir
> fonts.dir
> fonts.scale
> These files contain information about the fonts in the
> "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" directory.
>
> OpenOffice.org (and Gnome) do NOT like the fonts and information files being
> in separate directories! Gnome breaks much more gracefully, defaulting back
> to a bitmapped or type1 font (I'm not sure which). But OOo really throws a
> tantrum. It looks like it doesn't load any font at all. No menus, combo boxes
> are about 2 pixels tall, typing into the document produces no discernable
> results, etc.
>
> The workaround was to create these 3 links:
> * /usr/share/fonts/truetype/encodings.dir ->
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/encodings.dir
> * /usr/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir ->
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/fonts.dir
> * /usr/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.scale ->
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/fonts.scale
> and remove "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType" from the font path in both
> XF86Config-4 and XftConfig.
>
> After that, restart X and everything will behave.
>
> I don't know why the information files are in a different directory than the
> fonts, or really why this fix works (other than fooling programs into
> thinking all the files are together). If anyone knows why it works, or more
> importantly, a better way to handle the problem, please let us all know.
>
> HTH,
> Warren Dodge
>
> -----
> This one time, at band camp, Chris Halls said:
> (Thursday 12 September 2002 09:03 am)
>
> > Hi Michael!
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:09:34PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > > I just upgraded my testing machine to unstable and installed KDE3.0.3.
> > > All worked well except that openoffice no longer shows a single
> > > character. That is there is no longer any character in the menues,
> > > windows, etc.
> > >
> > > Did anyone else have such an effect? Yes, I know this is pre-unstable,
> > > but it better does not happen once the packages come up to sid. :-)
> >
> > Yours is the third such report I've seen today - something must've gone
> > wrong with fonts somewhere. The person I spoke on on IRC found that he
> > could get it to work by removing fonts from the font path until it started,
> > then changing the user interface font a la README.gz. That makes OOo use
> > the font you ask for instead of automatically looking for a font... and
> > finding one that doesn't work properly.
> >
> > It would be good to find out which font is being picked on these problem
> > machines. I can't reproduce it here.
> >
> > Chris
>
>
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