On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:03:46PM +0100, David Chanters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> i keep getting the error in the subject as in:
>
> urxvt: unable to load base fontset, please specify a valid one using
> -fn, aborting
Follow the lead and provide a correct fontset.
> However i am now finding that this causes problems with the "tabbed"
> extension in that any new tab created "hangs" and i have to manually
> switch to an old tab and back again to the new one in order for the
> prompt to appear. this is diagreeable.
Agreed. Still, fixing your config would likely not make this issue an
issue.
> however, the suggestions in that post don't apply -- my fonts do exist
how do you know that?
> Any ideas on whats going on? i hope this isn't me being silly
Somewhere you (or somebody else!) have specified an unloadable font.
You didn't mention where you got your binary from - distribution maintainers
often break urxvt in interetsing ways, so if you got your binary via a
distribution (this might include config files from such a package), then this
is a good place to look. debian/ubuntu are the prime offenders, but other
distributions are not better.
The error message really does mean that the first font in the font list
cannot be loaded.
That the printf works likely indicates that some other config file is
there and overrides your font.
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