Re: What could be missing?

On 2/17/11, Aaron W. Hsu <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you change to a different font does it work? What about with and
> without syntax highlighting, backlighting, or anything like that?

I tried....same result on the laptop installation, but all those
changes work perfectly
on the other one.

> I am pretty sure that you do not need to install Luxi Mono fonts. They
> come installed by default on Slackware.

Luxi Mono fonts were not there (again, on both installations many packages had
been removed over a year ago...). I read in the NEdit.org archives (I
think one of
your posts) that Luxi Mono fonts were preferable, so I downloaded and
installed them.

> I have installed some fonts on Slackware that do not work with the normal
> X11 applications, though they work with some Word processors; at least,
> they do not work when installed according to the normal conventions. I did
> not bother to refine my technique for installing fonts.
>
> Can you give us the exact font specifiers you are using? I remember Luxi
> Mono is a bit strange in respect to its sizing, and I had to be careful
> with my combinations when using that font.

Let's think logically here... One install on the one hand where NEdit
works perfectly;
the same exact install minus some packages on the other hand where NEdit does
not work. The problem cannot be with with the fonts, as the same set is used on
both installations, right? The problem is that NEdit needs some of the
files that
were removed in the second install in order to perform as well as it does in the
first instance, everything else being equal. My question has been, repeatedly,
what could those specific files needed by NEdit (that are present in
the first install
and absent in the second) be? The answer to that question will fix this problem.
Does looking at the list of removed packages give you a hint of what
that may be?
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