I had the same problem when installing fonts from .ttf files. Either the system froze completely and I had to reboot manually or just the font viewer window froze, in that case I could right click it in the dock and close it. However, I found that a bit of patience with the program helps to prevent the freezing. When I wait about 10 seconds after I opened the font in the viewer and before I click install and do the same after it said "installed" and before I close the font viewer, no crash occured.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-font-viewer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1375819 Title: gnome-font-viewer freezes up itself or the X session Status in gnome-font-viewer package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in gnome-font-viewer package in Fedora: Unknown Bug description: When I open gnome-font-viewer by clicking on font file (tried on TTF and PFB) it sometimes locks up. Then nothing can be done within the window, but the rest of X session works. However sometimes the whole X session freezes, only mouse cursor moves. It can be worked around by switching to tty1 and killall'ing gnome-font-viewer. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: gnome-font-viewer 3.12.0-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-18.25-generic 3.16.3 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-18-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Tue Sep 30 16:46:07 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-21 (436 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130423.1) SourcePackage: gnome-font-viewer UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-09-25 (4 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-font-viewer/+bug/1375819/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
