Olivier, have you seen this mail? On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 06:29:28PM +0100, John Latham wrote: > FvwmTaskBar crashes, quietly without any trace, in 2.4.6 as shipped by Red Hat > 7.3 (multi-byte is enabled) and also in 2.4.8 when compiled with multibyte > option, but not otherwise. > > The task bar just refused to appear, and left no error message not even a core > dump. Don't ask me how I figured out this was with the setting that caused the > problem > > *FvwmTaskBarFont -*helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > > and changing it to the following makes it work okay: > > *FvwmTaskBarFont -*helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 > > I assume it was picking up some font encoding that FvwmTaskBar cannot handle > -- does that make sense? > > This behaviour was still happening after I changed to POSIX locale (see > previous message): it seems you need BOTH the posix locale and the iso8859-1 > to make it work in 2.4, if multi-byte is emabled. > > Similarly, FvwmPager was using the wrong font until I put the iso8859-1 spec > on that too. At least it wasn't crashing! > > All this seems to work fine on 2.5.2, no need for locale change or iso8859-1 > specification. > > This all makes me think I could do with learning a *bit* more about X fonts > and their relationships to locales. Can anyone suggest a good (implies > short...) summary on the matter? > > Best wishes, John Latham
Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
