Yes it surely must be a Gtk2 problem, since all three
programs are Gtk2. Per an earlier suggestion I had played around
with ~/.gtkrc and got expected results in GIMP, but none at
all in Bluefish, Sodipodi or QCad.

Mostly I had been wanting to use Sodipodi. So I'd always
checked by starting that. But I note that when instead
I start Bluefish, I see this error on the cli...

** (bluefish:6510): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()

...which I am guessing must be related? Prior to seeing that
I had poked around Gtk2-related stuff thus:

1. Commented out 'xdm=YES' in /etc/rc.conf
2. Rebooted and started X with 'startx -- -dpi 100'
3. Rebooted again, starting X with 'startx -- -dpi 75'

...but neither helped. Then I compared between my working Celeron 700
tower PC and my badly-fonted PII laptop thus:

1. /usr/pkg/etc/fontconfig/fonts.conf
2. /usr/pkg/etc/fontconfig/fonts.dtd
3. /usr/X11Ry/lib/X11/XftConfig

But all three files are similar and have same chmod on both PCs.

Neither PC had a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file, so I made one for the laptop
with this line...

gtk-font-name = "Times New Roman 15"

...but no go. So I tried again with this different line...

gtk-font-name = "Arial 12"

...but still no go.

I have also tried rebuilding practically from zero by running
this...

pkg_delete -r Xft2

...and then rebuilding Bluefish, Sodipodi. But even that
had no effect. Now I am rebuilding QCad. When it is done I
will run QCad to see if it too gives a pango error.


James K. Lowden wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 11:24:41 -0500, Gan Uesli Starling <alias@starling.us>
> wrote:
> 
>>All these programs start but show tiny, one-pixel
>>fonts in the menues in both twm and icewm window
>>managers.
>>
>>1. Bluefish
>>2. QCad
>>3. Sodipodi
>>
>>This window manager gives an error window in the
>>same size one-pixel font.
>>
>>1. gnome-session
>>
>>Other programs such as Mozilla and GIMP work just
>>fine. This is on my laptop which otherwise works
>>as well as my tower PC. Any clues?
> 
> 
> Bluefish I know is GTK2, and Mozilla is not.  When I encountered similar
> trouble on first using GTK2 apps, I modified began invoking startx with:
> 
> 	startx -- -dpi 100
> 
> which is accurate for my setup.  The client apps (the GTK2 ones, at any
> rate) selected a reasonable font after that.  
> 
> HTH.  
> 
> --jkl
> 
> 


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