Re: help getting GNUStep running on Debian

[Jeff Teunissen]

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

Hey, shaleh.

> In an rxvt I run 'source /path/to/Makefile/script' and then openapp
> GNUMail.app which I installed from a package.  I get a message about a
> font cache needing to be built and that there will be a pause while one
> is built.  X then dies and I am back at my XDM prompt.  The same thing
> happens with a version of gorm I compiled from source.  This happens
> under both WindowMaker and blackbox(my preferred wm).

X is crashing because you have too many fonts to have loaded all at once.
font_cacher makes an index of all installed fonts, which causes X to load all
the fonts that have been registered with it. If there are too many, X will run
out of memory and crash. It's somewhat related to the fact that X will happily
allow more fonts than it can handle be added to the font path, which normally
isn't a problem because most people don't use every font they have. :)

You might be able to get it working by setting the following:

(after . /usr/lib/GNUstep/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh)

defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSFontMask "*-iso8859-1"

This will make font_cacher only load fonts matching the mask, hopefully a low
enough number that X won't go tits-up.

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