On 2005-07-21, Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.] > > Uh. X font descriptions do not work with xft directly. Maybe you're doing > that wrong?
After more discussion on the IRC, it appeared that the xft stuff had nothing to do with this, and it is infact some gnome shit that is messing up things here too. For some reason helveticas of size 12 and 17 disappear and so does 'fixed', but helvetica of size 14 works, after running gnome-session in an UTF-8 locale, for applications that use the localised Xmb font routines. Xlib also complains in xfontsel, for example, that it was unable to create a fontsel for such a font (but xfontsel probably falls back to charset-unaware routines after that). ISO-8859-1 locales don't seem to have this problem. All font paths (xset q) and fontlists (xlsfonts) are unaltered, but after running 'xset fp rehash' fonts load fine again. Does anyone have any idea what the fuck is that gnome is trying to do? Maybe a bug report should be filed against it (but what component? And I can't be bothered to register at their bugzilla), but by apriori evidence (software by AA fascists that messes up every standard X setting , and tries to override everything that is good about X's original design, as well), I would not be at all surprised if this was an intended feature. -- Tuomo
