Hi, I am trying to build a minimal elementary with framebuffer backend based initramfs for my Freerunner. I so far cross compiled all the required elementary dependencies and tested the result in a chroot with the dialog app from the elementary wiki page. The app starts up but all fonts are missing which makes sense since I haven't yet copied any into the chroot.
Unfortunately I don't really know how the font handling is supposed to work with the framebuffer backend (I disabled fontconfig support at compile time). I then took a look at the default elementary theme and saw that it specifys "Sans" as default font, is this correct so far? I then did: export ELM_ENGINE=fb export ELM_FONT_PATH=/usr/share/fonts strace -f -e trace=file -o log dialog "This is a test" This showed that it tried to open the files fonts.dir and fonts.alias in /usr/share/fonts. Did some google search about these and then copied the the truetype fonts from my normal SHR system to the host. On the host I executed: ttmkfdir mkfontdir which generated a fonts.scale (which didn't who up under strace so I ingored it for now) and a fonts.dir file. This looks like this: ... DejaVuSans.ttf -misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-ascii-0 DejaVuSans.ttf -misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso10646-1 DejaVuSans.ttf -misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-1 DejaVuSans.ttf -misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-10 DejaVuSans.ttf -misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-13 DejaVuSans.ttf -misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-15 DejaVuSans.ttf -misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-2 DejaVuSans.ttf -misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-3 DejaVuSans.ttf -misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-4 DejaVuSans.ttf -misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-5 DejaVuSans.ttf -misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-6 DejaVuSans.ttf -misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-7 DejaVuSans.ttf -misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-8 DejaVuSans.ttf -misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-9 DejaVuSans.ttf -misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-koi8-r DejaVuSans.ttf -misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-koi8-ru ... I then created a fonts.alias file with the following content (are the fonts case sensitive?): default -misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-ascii-0 Sans -misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-ascii-0 sans -misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-ascii-0 and copied everything to /usr/share/fonts into my chroot. Unfortunately the dialog app didn't pick up the fonts and strace showed that it now tries to acces /usr/share/elementary/themes/default.edj/Sans which doesn't exists. Could anyone explain me how to correctly configure my fonts for a framebuffer environment so that elementary can use them? Thanks, Marc -- Marc Andre Tanner >< http://www.brain-dump.org/ >< GPG key: CF7D56C0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
