On 15 May 2012 15:12, Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The Lucida fonts are in the xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages. >> >> Does installing both those packages remove the error for you? > > Thanks for the quick reply. No, alas. > > $ dpkg -l xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi xfonts-scalable > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | > Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend > |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) > ||/ Name Version Description > +++-=======================-=======================-========================== > ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.3 100 dpi fonts for X
Odd. What happens if you try another program with that font? xmessage -fn lucidasans-10 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, ... for me, that works--I get a text box with the selected font as expected. Of course, if I specify a non-existent font I get the same error you are seeing: Warning: Cannot convert string "no-such-font" to type FontStruct Other things to check: xlsfonts -fn lucidasans-10 xlsfonts -fn '-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-14-100-100-100-p-80-iso8859-1' grep lucidasans-10 /usr/share/fonts/X11/*/fonts.alias grep FontPath /etc/X11/xorg.conf If all is well, I would expect the xlsfonts commands to produce one or more lines, matching the argument to -fn. The fonts.alias files should contain lines mapping the alias "lucidasans-10" to a full font specification such as the "-b&h-lucida-medium-yadda-yadda" string above. On a recent system, I would not expect to see an xorg.conf (or XFree86.conf), but if such a file does exist, check the FontPath lines in the Files section. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
