Hi,
Since many of us on this list are Java programmers and not Linux experts, it would
be helpful to have a few more details. Perhaps these things are obvious to Linux
gurus.
I went to the www.gimp.org site and downloaded the URW fonts. The only
installation instructions seem to relate to updating the "XF86Config" file. Since
RedHat 6.0 has changed to a font server approach and my XF86Config file does not
have any font pahts, I assume that this part of the instructions should not apply
to my setup. So I followed the RedHat instructions and updated the
"/etc/X11/fs/config" file using the chkfontpath approach. Although it should not
be necessary, I did restart X and even rebooted. This still did not get rid of my
errors.
The fonts director under "usr/local/jdk1.2/jre" was already world-readable. So
there was no reason to change it.
So I did some further investigation and noticed that the names in the
"font.properties" file did not seem to match the names in the "fonts.dir" file for
the URW fonts. I do not see how it will find the fonts if the names do not match
and I did not see any fonts.alias file. But again, I do not really understand all
the details of the font system under Linux.
In any event, I would really like to get rid of these errors because I am teaching
a Java 2 class at a local college and would like to demonstrate what a great
development platform Linux plus Emacs+JDE makes. Granted everything still works
fine, but they are a nuisance.
So any help would be greatly appreciated. If you are interested in the notes and
sample source code for my class, go to "http://www.ajug.org/JavaCert".
Cynthia Jeness
Vartan Piroumian wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> OK, here's what worked for me.
>
> I first installed the URW fonts from the www.gimp.org website, as
> instructed on the blackdown.org bug report page.
>
> This eliminated the "zapf dingbats not found" errors.
>
> Then, all text disappeared from all Swing components. A helpful
> gentleman, (I apologize I forgot who it was now!!) suggested that I
> change the protection on the fonts directory.
>
> So, I did
>
> $ chmod a+r /usr/local/java/jre/lib/fonts
>
> And now everything works fine.
>
> I didn't post this to the group earlier so as not to take up
> bandwidth. It seemed that I was the only one having this problem -- I
> didn't see other such questions until recently!
>
> Regards,
>
> Vartan
>
> Kontorotsui writes:
> >
> > On 24-Sep-99 Cynthia Jeness wrote:
> > > Did you ever get this problem solved? The JDK still cannot find my "zapf
> > > dingbats" fonteither. I have tried the
> > > following:
> >
> > [List of attempts]
> >
> > I've done exatly the same, with SuSE 6.2, and I chose to give up and keep the
> > annoying error message, it doesn't harm.
> >
> > I wish I could remove this error message, but it's not the effort. The last
> > attempt did work, the error message disappeared... but also the text
> > disappeared from my applications :(
> >
> > ---
> > Andrea "Kontorotsui" Controzzi - MALE Student of Computer Science at
> > University of Pisa - Italy - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > My home page: http://www.cli.di.unipi.it/~controzz/intro.html
> >
> >
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