On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 14:33, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 08:46:29PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:57:43AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > Consequently I filed bug #117385 against lesstif1, but the lesstif > > > maintainer immediately closed it, saying that lesstif does not deal with > > > fonts at all (even though there several dozen references to XmFontList in > > > /usr/include/Xm/Xm.h). > > [...] > > > Is the lesstif maintainer correct in asserting that lesstif is not the > > > problem, that it does not deal with fonts? > > > > He might be, but Xu seldom bothers to investigate such things before > > closing a bug. I suggest you go over his head to the upstream Lesstif > > guys, and if they can give you authoritative word that it is in fact the > > toolkit's fault, reopen the bug, paste their message, and tell Xu he's a > > mindless fuck. > > > > I'll see what I can find upstream, but www.lesstif.org isn't responding just > at the moment. Anyway, Herbert replied again, and will try to help me > figure out what's wrong. > > He said he could not reproduce the problem with viewmol. I on the other > hand have the same problem on many lesstif programs: viewmol, ted, xsol. > ddd is okay, I gather it does not use the default fonts.
I just tried timidity and it seems to work fine. > Has no one else reported problems with lesstif programs? > Is there something I could have done to my system configuration, that > lesstif might hate me so much? Those font problems seem to be usually caused by version mismatches, e.g. I was affected when I upgraded X from 4.0.3 to 4.1.0 but the font server wasn't restarted. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
