Re: [Fresco-devel] Demos run, but no text

Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 00:29:57 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.fresco.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 07:27:09PM +0200, Hariolf H?fele wrote:
> I finally managed to compile Fresco and run fresco-demo. The widgets are
> displayed, but none of them has any text on them. The FAQ says to set
> $BERLIN_FONT_CHOOSER to an empty string before running Berlin to get a list
> of fonts to choose from. However, the list had only one font named "Cursor
> Regular".
> 
> I checked that I have FreeType installed. The fonts on my desktop are
> anti-aliased which tells me that FreeType works.
> Does anybody know why it can't seem to find the fonts on my system?
> Thanks,

You might try changing the "fontpath" entry in etc/berlinrc to point
to some directory containing fonts; possibly you have a weird install
that the default directory doesn't work for.

-- Nathaniel

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