First Fedora7 problem : KDE + Xorg + Fonts

Michael Schwendt mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de
Tue Aug 7 08:24:59 UTC 2007


On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 04:35:42 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Kelly wrote:
> 
> > Experimentation I performed at the time showed that the problem was the system 
> > didn't have any way of properly finding the fonts.  When I started using xfs, 
> > the problem disappeared.  That is why I'm worried about it.
> 
> That should not happen in Fedora anymore.

Depends on your configuration. Here with F7 and GNOME I could not stop
xfs because fonts would be missing afterwards. E.g. Emacs fails fatally:

$ emacs
No fonts match `-*-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-100-iso8859-15'

$ xterm
Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
xterm:  unable to open font "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-15", trying "fixed"....

And stopping a running xfs sort of "kills" X until the X server is restarted.




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