Thus spake Hereward Cooper: > [please cc: me as i'm off list] > > Hi there, > > What's up with abiword? Its complaining that "abiword could not load the > following font or fontset from the X window system display server: > [-*-Times New Roman-regular-r-*-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-*]. > I had this problem on a diskless terminal once (but not on the host) but never > managed to solve it. I presume abi-fonts is something to do with it, but it has > no install candidate. > > Thanks, > > Hereward I had this problem a little while ago, but unfortunatley I can't remember exactly how I resolved. From memory, I think that it is related to the font problems that the X server had. I believe abiword tries to call xset to set up it's font path, and if the fonts are configures badly in X, it fails. Hope someone else can do better, but I wnated to give you a starting point. HTH, Steve -- I've got a very bad feeling about this. -- Han Solo
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