On 2005-07-21, Rui T. C. Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Could not load font "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*", >>> trying "fixed" >>> Stack trace: > 0 [C]: in 'defstyle' > 1 /etc/X11/ion3/look.lua:49 > [Skipping unnamed C functions.] > > In a sleepless night I hacked up the drawing engine to use fontconfig > i.e. client font management and it then runs nicely but it is a really ugly > hack which doesn't even work 100% and I don't want to maintain this kind of > fork just to this end. So I'm calling upon someone more knowledgeable with > ion (Tuomo?) to fix this or at least point to where in the source I can > look to find the cause of it not being able to get the fonts from X.
Uh. X font descriptions do not work with xft directly. Maybe you're doing that wrong? > [1] It would be nice to have some of the gnome daemons running so that > applications get more integrated, Integrated with what? Gnome daemons are only trouble and completely fuck up the system (e.g. X resources are fucked up and you get white xterms, X keymap is reseted to xkb default shit instead of custom modmap, and so on). -- Tuomo
