> I'm having what appears to be a common problem but not of > the solutions I've found on various forums and threads have > worked for me. > > I noticed this issue after I configured my system to use > the en_US.utf8 locale but it's possible that this issue > existed before that change. Note that in debugging I've gone > back to using having POSIX as my locale and the problem > persists. > > I noticed then when I did a ctrl-right click xterm windows > would close. I > started an xterm from an xterm and ctrl-right clicked on > the new xterm and saw the following error message: > > <begin> > ~(245)$ xterm > Warning: Cannot convert string > "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" > to type FontStruct > Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font > Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font > Error: Aborting: no font found > <end>
Turns out my distro make a change such that if font packages are installed and UTF support is not enabled on the system, the ISO 8859-1 fonts were not installed. UTF support was not enabled on my system. Thus, when various x apps went looking for the needed fonts, they wouldn't find them. Details @ http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359679#c16. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
