* Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> [110125 22:28]:
> Before doing that you might want to consider suggesting or recommending
> xfonts-100dpi | xfonts-75dpi for the gv package.
The xserver-xorg-core package is already doing this. Adding it to
GV also does not really help, as those fonts are not needed on the
computer gv is running but on the computer your X server is running
(or on the computer the X font server your X server is using).
>>> However, there is an interesting question still remaining which is why
>>> didn't I see these warning messages when I used gv before? From my
>>> bash history, I had a big burst of gv activity ~3 weeks ago, and I am
>>> sure I would have noticed these warning messages then.
>>
>> If you manage to reproduce the effect, let me know.
>
> Hmmm. I am a pretty good developer, but I do have difficulty with time
> travel back to the status of my system 3 weeks ago. :-)
Indeed. There is simply not really any promising way to look
into this, unless there is a way to reproduce this. If you manage
to this, I'm more than ready to help (even though I really do not
think a bug in GV, but I am also very interested in the state of
the used libraries and X in general).
>> The libraries gv uses are not really subject to change. And with no
>> fonts available, this font cannot be found.
>
> OK. It appears you believe the only solution to this puzzle is I
> didn't notice the warning messages for the thousands of times I have
> used gv since I installed the system last year. I think that is
> extremely unlikely but, of course, always possible.
It's not the only solution. There might also be the font vanished
otherwise.
Ddue to the very low level (from a modern point of view) the libraries
GV works with act on, I do not think it at all likely that there is no
warning, unless there is a font, which xlsfonts should show.
There might be something else lost in your system that was able to
give such a font and that might have been lost. But that is neither
something of GV, nor anything I can help with without at least a
system where it actually happens.
So from my point of view:
- an X server should have the basic fonts installed. It's no bug
of an program to complain if they are missing.
- xlsfonts says there is no such font, so there is nothing for gv
to find.
Thus the warning you see is no bug in gv. There might be something
fishy elsewhere, but there is not enough information, to even reassign
the bug in a general direction.
If you find or even better can produce a system where there is no such
font but gv produces no warning (and you did not override what fonts gv
should use, as it is totally configurable here as Xt program) let me
know. If you find a system where this font is there but it vanishes to
the setup you currently have without deinstalling the package the font
is in, I'm also willing to help you find the cause, but the respective
maintainers of the involved packages might be able to help you better.
Bernhard R. Link
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