Re: What happened to the fonts?

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
>>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Bukie Mabayoje wrote:
>>>> Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>>>>>    I synced up and built and now, though the server starts fine,
>>>>> apps can't get any fonts.  Window managers claim they can't find
>>>>> fontsets like fixed so menus and such have no text in them.
>>>>> xfontsel seems to work though.  Anyone know what's going on?
>>>>> It's like the fonts.alias isn't being read anymore.  I can
>>>>> see fixed in the fonts.alias and I can see the corresponding
>>>>> font in the fonts.dir and I can see that the font file exists
>>>>> and can verify that the server acknowledged that font path.

>>>> I am looking into a similar problem too, when xfs is not running.

>>> I've been able to make the fontset message appear with a simple test case
>>> (holding down the control key and pressing any mouse button while the 
>>> pointer
>>> is in an xterm).

>>   I don't see that message with xterm.  TWM menus don't work though.
>> But, if I run TWM remotely from another machine it works.  I think
>> that implies that it's a problem with the local libraries.  Another
>> data point, is a test app that opens "fixed" seems to work fine, so
>> it's not the case that aliases are broken in general - just in some
>> cases.

>> Bukie, how long have you been seeing this problem?  I updated
>> yesterday and saw it for the first time.  The last time I updated
>> was Nov 26. so that gives a pretty large window.

> Mark (and anyone else, of course),

> Please tell me whether the attached patch fixes (your version of) the 
> problem.

Umm.  That's not right.  Further investigation shows the xterm behaviour I 
was seeing was due to an NLS configuration error.  Also, the TWM menus I see 
look as expected.  Can you narrow down this problem a bit more?

Marc.

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