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  • From: "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] fontconfig and gnome
  • Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:01:21 -0700 (PDT)


Duane Malcolm said:
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed gnome. X started fine but gdm wouldn't. I did a bit
> of research knowing it was a font problem and I found the font
> path(/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts) wasn't included in the
> /etc/fonts/local.conf file. So I put this in and it worked fine.
>
> Is this something casting should do?? Or is it expected common knowledge?
>
> Duane

It isn't common knowledge, I haven't modified my /etc/fonts/local.conf at
all and it works for me. Probably a spell should be taking care of this
(fontconfig, IIRC). May want to try 'cast -r -c fontconfig' and see if it
fixes the problem (well, you already fixed it, but... ;)).

-sandalle

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