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Re: question about GNUstep on Debian/woody
From: |
Adam Fedor |
Subject: |
Re: question about GNUstep on Debian/woody |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:54:55 -0600 |
On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 11:37 AM, Joerg Desch wrote:
If I try to start a program (image-viewer, gnumail) from with the
windowmaker
menu, the xserver (XFree 4.1.0) crashes and restarts immediately. So
I've
tried to start image-viewer within a xterm shell. I've got the
following
error messages (repeated several times):
,----
| 2003-06-26 14:38:37.072 ImageViewer[28372] X-Windows error - \
| BadGC (invalid GC parameter)
| on display: :0.0
| type: 0
| serial number: 164
| request code: 57
| 2003-06-26 14:38:37.094 ImageViewer[28372] XGFont: selected font: \
| Helvetica-Bold at nan ((nil)) is not available.
`----
What does that mean?
The type-1 `helvetica' fonst is installed....
One reason I've seen the X server crash is when there are a lot of
fonts available and font_cacher tries to read them all. Some X servers
don't like that and crash (see
http://www.gnustep.org/information/userfaq_1.html#SEC30). That doesn't
really appear to be the problem here though. It looks like the font
matrix is screwed up. I can only see that happening if somehow one of
the font size defaults was corrupt or set incorrectly. You can try
defaults read NSGlobalDomain
to look for defaults with 'Size' in them. Also try
detaults write NSGlobalDomain GSFontAntiAlias YES
which uses a different font mechanism. Then try to run the app again.