For the fonts, see:
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/jdk1.2-status/known-bugs.html
"Peter D. Junger" wrote:
>
> I did download JDK 1.2.2 from the Sun webpages and it seems to work
> as it should when I ran the first example in Deitel & Deitel, _Java,
> How to Program_, which sends its output to standard output.
>
> With the second example I ran into two problems, both of which probably
> having as much to do with the fact that I am running RedHat 6.2, Gnome,
> and Enlightenment.
>
> The first problem is pesky, but not fatal, although it makes the example
> unusable except for purposes of my own education.
>
> The second example uses JOptionPane.showInputDialog and
> JOptionPane.showMessageDialog. When I run it it in a gnome terminal
> (or in an xterm) the Input Dialog and MessageDialog boxes pop up and
> do just what they are supposed to do. But, unfortunately, on the
> terminal the following message, sent to either standard output or standard
> error appears repeatedly:
>
> Font specified in font.properties not found
> \[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
>
> There are several fonts specified in
> /usr/local/jdk1.2.2/jre/lib/font.properties with that specificaton, all in
> the form of serif.2 or serif.italic.2. I don't know where java is supposed
> to look for them. So that is one place where I need help.
>
> The other problem has to do with some program---quite likely
> enlightenment--- trying to be too clever. The dialog boxes that running
> the program brings up all take the form of regular enlightenment pop-up
> boxes, and they have the same bar at the top that enlightenment boxes have.
> The rightmost symbol on that bar is a right arrow. When one clicks on it
> it produces an extension of the bar that contains some additional icons.
> Now, the problem is that when I clicked on the icon that is supposed to
> close the box, the box closed just fine, but the extension to the bar
> remained, like the grin after the cat disappeared. And when I closed
> the extension, clicking on the appropriate icon in the extension, the
> extension closed all right, but I was informed by enlightenment that that
> operation had caused a segmentation fault and advised that I should shut
> down X.
>
> Enlightenment also said that that segfault probably was the result of a bug.
> So I guess I am asking, is it a known bug?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
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> Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
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