Continuing my gnome saga, I fired it up for the first time yesterday.
Here are two consecutive entries into my project log:
jamzen: 11:44 AM Sun, 14 Nov 2010
hamilton:/build/gn/gnome-user-docs-2.30.1
tags: gnome first run
[1] The desktop comes up ok, but there's no text -- only an empty box
for each character.
root: 03:19 PM Sun, 14 Nov 2010
hamilton:/usr/share/fonts
tags: fonts error solved
There appears to have been an error in the BLFS book. I inadvertently
propagated it into the softlinks in this directory. I've corrected
them, and gnome is now fully literate.
The error appears in the fourth graybox on the Xorg Fonts page in
svn-20101016, and it's still there in svn-20101112:
ln -svn $XORG_PREFIX/share/fonts/X11/fonts/OTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-OTF
ln -svn $XORG_PREFIX/share/fonts/X11/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF
I'm installing into /opt/X11, and the fonts are in
/opt/X11/share/fonts/X11
*not*
/opt/X11/share/fonts/X11/fonts
**
Anway, I figured you'd want to know.
This is the first time I've taken an LFS / BLFS build this far. I'm
blown away that I actually now have a working gnome on top of my Xwindow
system. I figured I'd encounter some really insurmountable mess-up
before I got this far.
Congratulation and thanks to everybody in this BLFS group. I've learned
a tremendous amount, and kept a pretty detailed log of what that
included. I may put it up soon, somewhere where others can compare
notes with what I experienced.
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