Hi, "J. Davison de St. Germain" <dav@cs.utah.edu> writes: > PPS. I'm trying to install it locally because our program that links > against the older/system installed libs exhibits strange behavior and > also to learn about the GTK system. The strange behavior is this: > > The program comes up but when I try to bring up a menu (which needs a > font) it "freezes" up. After about 4 minutes, it returns printing out > a message that says something like "font not found, please look at > your .fonts.conf file... etc." I have > /usr/local/lib/pango/1.2.0/modules (which have a bunch of .so's in it) > in my .fonts.conf file. (BTW, a .fonts.cahce-1 files is created with > that path in it.) I've searched the web trying to find out how > to make this work, but I can't find anything. It is unclear to me how > all these pieces fit together and I can't find a lot of docs on all > the different pieces. Perhaps solving this problem is easier than the > installing of GTK. Any help on this problem is also greatly > appreciated. Thanks again in advance. It should be sufficient to make sure that there is at least one useable font installed in the directory configured in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf or ~/.fonts.conf. You also need to run fc-cache once (as root for globally installed font files). Sven
