[gentoo-user] Windowmaker can't find any fonts and aborts

[gentoo-user] Windowmaker can't find any fonts and aborts

[Rob]

As superuser Windowmaker runs, as a user, it aborts saying "no fonts
found" or similar.

I checked the www.fontconfig.org site and there is hardly any
documentation there.  It was no help.

The www.windowmaker.org site had one tip for possibly solving this
error- make sure locale is set right, or in worst case, unset the LANG
variable.  None of these ideas worked.  Maybe they need to be set before
compiling Windowmaker???  I don't know.

Looking at the Windowmaker config files:  /etc/X11/WindowMaker/WMGlobal
and /etc/X11/WindowMaker/Windowmaker and the corresponding ~/GNUStep
config files, Windowmaker is looking for the Trebuchet MS, Luxi Sans
font, which does reside in my system in the /usr/share/fonts/TTF
directory.  The TTF directory is included in my xorg.conf file.

So I tried to hack  the ~/GNUStep config files to use different fonts,
and that did not help either.

A search of the gentoo-user archives didn't find anything.

So I am at a loss as to why I can't run Windowmaker as a user.

Sincerely,  Rob.
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[gentoo-user] Re: Windowmaker can't find any fonts and aborts

[Rob]

Rob wrote:
> As superuser Windowmaker runs, as a user, it aborts saying "no fonts
> found" or similar.
> 
> I checked the www.fontconfig.org site and there is hardly any
> documentation there.  It was no help.
> 
> The www.windowmaker.org site had one tip for possibly solving this
> error- make sure locale is set right, or in worst case, unset the LANG
> variable.  None of these ideas worked.  Maybe they need to be set before
> compiling Windowmaker???  I don't know.
> 
> Looking at the Windowmaker config files:  /etc/X11/WindowMaker/WMGlobal
> and /etc/X11/WindowMaker/Windowmaker and the corresponding ~/GNUStep
> config files, Windowmaker is looking for the Trebuchet MS, Luxi Sans
> font, which does reside in my system in the /usr/share/fonts/TTF
> directory.  The TTF directory is included in my xorg.conf file.
> 
> So I tried to hack  the ~/GNUStep config files to use different fonts,
> and that did not help either.
> 
> A search of the gentoo-user archives didn't find anything.
> 
> So I am at a loss as to why I can't run Windowmaker as a user.
> 
> Sincerely,  Rob.
> 

I forgot to add-  I ran Xorg without Windowmaker and ran xfontsel, and
all of the fonts were there.  Moreover, then running  Mozilla, I saw
that it could find all of the fonts as well, so perhaps this is a
Windowmaker specific problem, and not system-wide when running as user.

Rob.
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