Matthias Clasen wrote: > Ok, I poked some more at this, and it seems to be a problem with > FcNameRegisterObjectTypes() and/ or FcNameGetObjectType(). What is > happening is that Xft calls FcNameRegisterObjectTypes() to register some > additional names, "render" being the third one. There seems to be some > confusion wrt to the assignment of ids to the registered strings, at > least we end up with "render" from the Xft strings getting id 2, which > is the same id as "style" from the FC registered strings got. This has > then the effect that setting "render" to TRUE sets "style" instead, > which is bad, since "style" is not a boolean... Thanks a lot! I've committed a fix to this problem now, and gnome-font-properties works for me. I suppose I should have guessed that people might actually use FcNameRegisterObjectTypes. Now that gnome-terminal and gnome-font-properties work, I think it should be safe to make a development release, hopefully tonight, after looking at Behdad's patch. pat