Re: fontilus and GDK_USE_XFT

[Johannes Rohr <j.rohr@comlink.apc.org>]

Jeff Waugh <jdub@perkypants.org> writes:

> <quote who="Johannes Rohr">
> 
> > jr@rudi:~$ gnome-font-viewer fonts:///Arial
> > ** Message: could not open URI
> > could not load face 'fonts:///Arial'
> > jr@rudi:~$ gnome-font-viewer fonts:///arial
> > ** Message: could not open URI
> > could not load face 'fonts:///arial'
> > jr@rudi:~$ 
> > 
> > FYI: msttcorefonts is installed.
> 
> Is your /etc/fonts/fonts.conf set up correctly, and does fc-list(1) list any
> fonts?

When it is set up correctly, I get this error instead:

jr@rudi:~$ gnome-font-viewer fonts:///Courier

,----
| ** ERROR **: Failed to match any font. This could be due to a broken
| Xft configuration, or if you run XFree 4.1.0 due to a bug in
| libXrender. For more information about this, read
| http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68030
`----


gnome-font-viewer works, when I unset GDK_USE_XFT, but of course this
means that xft[2] is no longer used.

Thanks,

Johannes