Subject: [Fwd: [Gary Lawrence Murphy
This was posted to the user list, but no-one there seemed to have any
David Chart
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A google search for font problems and two postings to comp.windows.x
While AbiWord is running (launched with the shell script) xfontsel
I'm installing this on a micro-distro called Peanut Linux, losely
ldd shows no missing libraries in AbiWord_d (libgtk-1.2)
Any ideas what might be going wrong here? Any suggestions on how I
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From: David Chart (linux@dchart.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 15:47:02 CDT
ideas. I'm forwarding it here at Gary's request, because he isn't on
this list. Please do Cc any answers. Thanks.
From: Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@canada.com>
To: David Chart <linux@dchart.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Fonts show in xfontsel but not in AbiWord
newsgroups didn't turn up any clues: I have an old 486 with the Chips
and Tech video (256 colour) and XFree86 4.0.3, trying to run AbiWord
from abisuite-0.9.2 Linux i386 dynamic
will display all of the AbiWord fonts, but /all/ fonts inside the
AbiWord application edit screen do not display; menus are labelled,
but if you type, the cursor will only move for a space (which prints
as a dot).
based on Slackware trimmed down to fit inside 300Mb. Could there be
some vital missing but undetected piece of the Gtk kit that might be
responsible?
might gather more information? I understand that AbiWord uses its own
internal font rendering engine, but what could be so different that
all other X apps are able to view the AbiWord fonts, but AbiWord is
not able to view any fonts at all?
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