On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 16:10 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > >XLFD fonts have not been meaningfully supported for a *long* time > >in GTK+. I don't immediately what in your program no longer works, > >but it's not something we are going to fix. > > > >If you really have a pressing need for 1986-era font technology, > >use Xlib directly. > > i don't believe this is an error in GTK/GDK ... it works just fine > using GTK1.2 on XFree86, but not GTK1.2 on X.org. Ah, didn't see that part of the report, just the part about 2.4.14, where I wouldn't particularly expect the code to work due to a complete lack of testing. > i entirely agree with you about the agedness of XLFD, but > GTK1.2/XFree86 systems don't allow us to use new font descriptions > without requiring a lot of work on the part of the user, and there is > no way i know of to describe a font that is unambiguous in both > worlds. > > we are moving to GTK2 shortly, and will be using newer names then; > the meantime, i see no reason why the gtk rc file used on > gtk1.2/xfree86 should break on gtk1.2/X.org. do you? > > perhaps by "we", you meant X.org, rather than the GTK project? No, I didn't. I'm not aware of any changes that matter here. X fonts should still work as before. (There are some changes to the fontset configuration, but you are using gdk_font_load(), not gdk_fontset_load().) Unfortunately, I haven't touched a XLFD in a couple of years and really don't remember that part of the code, so I can't help you much. If it is a TrueType font, there are some changes to the way TrueType fonts are loaded in the server, so maybe you want to poke around there. Regards, Owen
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