On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 05:04:50 +0000, Victor wrote: > Frederic Crozat wrote: > >>On Mon, 07 Oct 2002 19:28:25 +0000, Victor wrote: >> >>>Frederic Crozat wrote: >>> >>>>On Mon, 07 Oct 2002 11:53:07 +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote: >>>> >>>>>Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> >>>>>>I started tweaking the gnome2 font settings and now I can't even >>>>>>start gnome anymore. I changed the font defaults to verdana. I'm >>>>>>resorting to running KDE3 (and liking it so far), but I would still >>>>>>like to run my gnome2 based apps. Any hints on this. I looked >>>>>>through some *.xml files in .gconf .gconfd and .gnome2 and there >>>>>>seem to be some font settings in there. So far I'm not too impressed >>>>>>with gnome2, on the other hand KDE has come a long >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>If you don't give ANY error message, how can you expect we provide any >>>>help ?? >>>> >>>$ gnome-font-properties >>> >>>** (gnome-font-properties:26637): WARNING **: Cannot open font file for >>>font Arial 12 >>> >>>** (gnome-font-properties:26637): WARNING **: Cannot open fallback font, >>>nothing to do >>> >>> >> >>It seems your font configuration is completely f*ck up :(( >> > I figured that much. ;-) > >>Check that both /etc/X11/fs/config and /etc/X11/fs/XftConfig are correct.. >>You should also run ttmkfdir on directories where fonts were added.. >> > I have been playing around with /etc/X11/fs/config but not the > XftConfig. I actually don't have a /etc/X11fs/XftConfig mine is located > in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig. Could that be the problem? I was > thinking about getting rid of xfs and just adding the font path into > XF86Config. (Is there any particular reason we should be using xfs if we > aren't serving fonts to any clients?)
My mistake : it is /etc/X11/XftConfig ... -- Frederic Crozat MandrakeSoft
