Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words
> Declan Moriarty wrote:
> > If it's any consolation, I have the precompiled version of firefox
> > (for logistical reasons) with BLFS-5.0 and it does the same thing.
> > If you hit a page with a password(i.e. under https), and press
> > "Proceed" I get a blank prompt, or sometimes 2 sucessive blank
> > prompts.
> Just checked at gmail, and I don't get that - I only get the blank
> prompt if it offers to remember the password. But yes, sometimes there
> is a second one, with only one button.
>
> > I currently have this in the terminal where X was started
> >
> > NO FONT WAS FOUND Name["Sans"] Repeated many times.
> My last messages in that terminal are Epiphany complaining that it
> can't find it's View Source icon.
>
> I notice though that other distros don't have this problem - that
> makes it more likely that someone has come across this before and
> found a fix. I will try asking around, and summarise my results here
> if I find a solution.
I might tell you now because I think I've found it.
One of the great things about the BLFS book is that it usually tells you
what the software packages provide. fontconfig provides fc-cache
I have /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and /etc/fonts/local.conf. But running
fc-cache -v showed me that fontconfig was caching only from
/usr/share/fonts and ~/.fonts/, and this despite listing the X11 fonts
in the local.conf file.
Cheating as usual, I tried
ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts /usr/share/fonts
fc-cache -v
My system lost full FHS compliance, but gained about 500 fonts. The
BLFS specific problem had been that local.conf was not read. My
local.conf (with fc-cache-2.2.2) reads
[EMAIL PROTECTED] less /etc/fonts/local.conf
<fontconfig>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic</dir>
<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc</dir>
</fontconfig>
/tries it signing into Ebay
Well, I got one blank prompt (default settings). The one asking me about
remembering my username/password was readable, there was another with an
icon using "i", no info, and no, yes & cancel options.
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With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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