Re: text/Fonts missing in certain apps ???

[anthony <mailinganthony@googlemail.com>]

hi Liam,

yeah, loads - here's the entries from     /var/log/Xorg.0.log   :

(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc".
        Entry deleted from font path.
        (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc").
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/".
        Entry deleted from font path.
        (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/").
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/".
        Entry deleted from font path.
        (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/").
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/CID" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" does not exist.
        Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi".
        Entry deleted from font path.
        (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi").
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi".
        Entry deleted from font path.
        (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi").
z(**) FontPath set to "unix/:7100,/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/lib/X11/fon$
(==) RgbPath set to "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/li(II) LoadModule: "freetype"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts/libfreetype.so
(II) Module freetype: vendor="X.Org Foundation & the After X-TT Project"
        compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 2.1.0

Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/OTF, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/CID/, removing from list!
(**) RADEON(0): RADEONSaveScreen(2)

        Module class: X.Org Font Renderer
        ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font FreeType
b/xorg/modules"

What to do? put fonts in these paths? or change the paths?

Anthony

On 9/18/06, Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:03:13 +0100
anthony <mailinganthony@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Dear Debian-users,
>
> I have been using Debian etch for some six months and mostly it has
> been going well.
>
> However, after a few recent changes (I'm not sure which one caused the
> problem so I'm going to list them) I lost the text in the menus of
> several applications :
>
> Ardour
> Audacity
> Xmms
>
> The apps work, but when I click on the menus I just get a blank grey
> box pull down menu with no indication of what the menu items are.

Al of the above apps use GTK1 which, unlike GTK2, gets fonts from the
X server or a font server. Are there any messages concerning missing
fonts in /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

[...]

--

Liam


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