Re: Helvetica font with GWorkspace

[Adam Fedor]

On Apr 13, 2005, at 2:56 AM, Tabitha McNerney wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Can someone kindly help me figure out why my Helvetica font is listed
> as missing? When I start GWorkspace app from Xterm it shows:
>
> > GWorkspace[482] The font specified for NSFont, Helvetica, can't be 
> > found.
>
> Today I built GWorkspace against the latest version of GNUstep that
> was released a few days ago. Everything seems to work splendidly.
> Thank you everyone for making the updates available. It also makes my
> boss happy too because he now has GNUstep on his Mac.

If you are using the xlib backend, then this is a problem with Xft on 
Macs. You can do this:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSFontAntiAlias NO

or you can switch to the art backend.