Hi, Am Dienstag, den 16.03.2010, 17:01 +0300 schrieb sergio: > Looks like that this is not only xmonad error.
indeed it does. Unfortunately, I can’t help you here... > > I think that a "fixed" font should be available on all systems, so I > > think adding xfont-base to the depends of libghc6-xmonad-contrib-dev (or > > xmonad) is the correct thing to do. But then, people can have a font > > server... maybe a Recommends would do. > > fixed font is available without xfonts-base package. > On the one hand xmonad work improperly without xfont-base and should > depend on it. On the other hand xmonad can work (I hope) without > xfont-base, because fonts can be redefined in user config (hope I'm > right) and so it should not depend on xfont-base. > > Really I think, that if xmonad will depend on xfont-base it will be > strange, because xmonad can work well without it. But it should > recommend or suggest it. I’m reluctant, given that most people seem to have a working setup and people who remove fonts from their system should know what they are doing. OTOH, a Recommends does not hurt, so I guess I’ll add it and see if anyone complains. > But the main, that xmonad must, is explain whats wrong. > For example like xterm does: > "cannot load font -misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" This is actually a bug in the X11 bindings. I’m CCing spencer: Could you try to make the error thrown by createFontSet in case of a missing font more readable? Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer [email protected] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: [email protected] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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