Subject: Re: abiword dies before splash screen.
From: Rui Miguel Seabra (rms@multicert.com)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2001 - 03:15:09 CST
On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 05:55, Martin Sevior wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I just finished making a gtk build and abiword dies before the
> splash screen appears with the error:
>
> DEBUG: XDisplay [:0], current X font path count 1, AW path count 1,
> subdircount 5
> DEBUG: adding "/home/msevior/abidir/AbiSuite/fonts/" to font path
> DEBUG: --- setting X font path (2 items)
> DEBUG: fontpath[0]: "unix/:7100"
> DEBUG: fontpath[1]: "/home/msevior/abidir/AbiSuite/fonts/"
> DEBUG: -------------------------------------------------
>
> Gdk-ERROR **: 86
> serial 9 error_code 86 request_code 51 minor_code 0
>
> Something to do with fonts. I have a working xfs that works fine with our
> 0.9.4.1 rpm on a redhat 7.1 system.
>
> I'm not very good with X trickery. For those that are, please fix this
> ASAP. This is an abiword bug not an X configuration bug.
Nyes
It is a bug in that we assum that X handles it's fonts.
It is not a bug in that the user should have in his X configuration
(even though he uses an x font server):
Add to XF86Config-4 (in Section "Module"):
Load "bitmap"
Load "freetype"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
And all will work.
Hugs, rms
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