Yeah, GNOME searches if you have any fonts installed in ~/.fonts, /usr/share/fonts (and some other locations) in that order. I did not have a ~/.fonts and the main fonts dir on AIX is different - its not on the list GNOME searches. So I was able to resolve the problem by installing some fonts in my ~/.fonts and ran "fc-cache ~/.fonts". The gnome-admin page was a huge help:
http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/2.6/system-admin-guide.html
To answer your q, AIX uses an internal X server - this is probably one of the reasons for the different standard font paths. But pango seems to work w/ it too - I guess Bull (or whoever) did a nice job of porting it along with all of the other GNOME components. Everything works fine now.
Thanks for the info,
Sid.
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 23:32 -0700, Sid Kode wrote:
>
> I installed all the aix binary rpms on the gnome page of
> http://www.bullfreeware.com. Everything seems to work fine besides
> the fonts... I have attached a screenshot of my desktop. Note that
> the xv dialog font shows up correctly. Anyone know what the cause
> might be?
>
> Sid.
>
Just some information: GTK+ uses unicode for its text (which I think is
standard on all unices), but the actual font rendering is done via a
library called Pango, which AFAIK relies heavily on Fontconfig2 and and
xtf/FreeType for font rendering.
Are you using X.org's server or an internal aix one? X.org one will just
work wrt Pango, but I have no clue about aix.
I think this might be an aix related problem.
Cheers,
Ryan
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