Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Evan Cooch wrote: >> Quick followup - works fine with fluxbox (and, as noted, default >> twm). Simply can't get it to work with the gnome desktop, which >> ultimately I would like to. > > The difference between twm and metacity in gnome or other gnome > windows manager is that twm uses X11 core fonts whereas gnome > is xft/fontconfig-aware, and as far as I know R's X11() uses > core font API's and is not xft-aware. > > You haven't said anything about your xorg setup - specifically, > whether you are using a font server (it is the default on FC5, so > unless you have changed it, you are using one). If that's the case, > changing this line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf > FontPath "unix/:7100" > to use *real* font paths may help.
Thanks very much for the useful summary of some key points. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
