Re: amaya won't start due to font problems

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:28:16 +0100
Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> I wrote:
> >>I have the luxi fonts that appear in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ and I 
> >>have a set of Microsoft fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts/ttfonts. 
> >>xfontsel can see all these fonts, so I suppose they are accessible.
> and Irene Vatton replied:
> > That seems fine.
> > I suggest you create a soft link in your $HOME/.amaya/fonts.unix
> > to Amaya/config/fonts.unix.deb just to see if it works better.
> 
> I made a link as below; I hope it was what you meant:
> dhoworth:~$ ln -s /usr/lib/Amaya/config/fonts.unix.deb .amaya/fonts.unix
> 
> But I still get the same font errors as before.
> 
> Thanks, Dave
> -- 
> Dave Howorth
> MRC Centre for Protein Engineering
> Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH
> 01223 252960

Humm, I suspected you used the GTK version. Right?

Could you check with xfontsel that the first entry 
(an probably another entry) is available
-*-times-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1

     Irene.
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