Re: GTK Fonts

[Timeboy <timohart@gmx.at>]

On Thursday Sep 20 23:08 Charles Baker wrote:
> ** I did an `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade`
> ** the other night and ever since the fonts on any of my
> ** gtk apps ( everybuddy, gftp, gnumeric, etc. ) have
> ** been showing as little blocks. I've been doing a
> ** little searching on debian-users but can't really find
> ** an answer. I've tried rearranging the font lines in
> ** XF86Config which helped Netscape but did nothing for
> ** GTK apps. BTW, I'm using a machine that started out as
> ** potato and has been upgraded to woody.

There was made some changes of xfonts packages since 
XFree86 in Woody changed to version 4.1.0. Xfonts-base
now primerily includes ISO 8859-1 fonts. For other
fonts you can install xfonts-base-transcoded.

Timo

Package: xfonts-base-transcoded
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 1820
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
Source: xfree86
Version: 4.1.0-5
Replaces: xfonts-base (<< 4.1.0), xfntbase
Depends: xutils (>> 4.0.3)
Suggests: xfs, xserver
Conflicts: xbase-clients (<< 4.0), xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2-base (<< 3.0.0-10)
Description: standard fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10646-1)
 xfonts-base-transcoded provides a standard set of low-resolution bitmapped
 fonts.  In most cases it is desirable to have the X font server (xfs)
 and/or an X server installed to make the fonts available to X clients.
 .
 This package contains fonts in several ISO 8859 encodings (-2, -3, -4, -5,
 -7, -8, -9, -10, -13, -14, and -15) as well as KOI8-R.  For the ISO
 10646-1 and ISO 8859-1 encodings, see the xfonts-base package.
 .
 This package requires the xutils package to prepare the font directories
 for use by an X server or X font server.

Package: xfonts-base
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 6072
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
Source: xfree86
Version: 4.1.0-5
Replaces: xfntbase, xfntbig, xfonts-cjk
Provides: xfntbase, xfntbig, xfonts-cjk
Depends: xutils (>> 4.0.3)
Suggests: xfs, xserver
Conflicts: xfntbase, xfonts-cjk, xbase-clients (<< 4.0)
Conffiles:
 /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias a8ec05d528431d4c9703b55a7efd67a8
Description: standard fonts for X
 xfonts-base provides a standard set of low-resolution bitmapped fonts.  In
 most cases it is desirable to have the X font server (xfs) and/or an X server
 installed to make the fonts available to X clients.
 .
 This package contains primarily fonts in the ISO 10646-1 and ISO 8859-1
 encodings, to conserve disk space.  (A small selection of fonts in ISO
 8859-8, JIS-X0208.1983, JIS-X0208.1976, and GB2312.1980 fonts are also
 included.)  For other encodings, see the xfonts-base-transcoded package.
 .
 If you are not using a remote font server, you must install this package if
 you are installing an X server.  It contains fonts without which X servers
 will not work.
 .
 This package also provides a set of files that can be used by the X or
 fonts server to transcode fonts from one encoding to another (e.g., KOI8-R
 to ISO-8859-5).
 .
 This package requires the xutils package to prepare the font directories
 for use by an X server or X font server.

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