Re: Problem with hard-coded fonts in applications

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com>]

Kaixo!

On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:44:16PM +0000, simos@pc96.ma.rhbnc.ac.uk wrote:
 
> Dear All,
> 	In some gnome applications fonts are specified
> that do not have the corresponding set of characters for
> other than -8859-1.
> 	For example, in logview (gnome-utils/logview/config.c),
> the following are defined:
> 
> ===>
> #define FIXED_12_FONT
> "-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> #define FIXED_12_BFONT
> "-b&h-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
...

> What should be the resolution of this?

>From my experience the solution is to add ",*-r-*" to the end
(that is making it a "match all" fontset in practice), and
then in the programs replace all gdk_font_load by gdk_fontset_load
 
> The best looks to be (and it is mentioned in control-center)
> is to get the fixed/varied fonts from the GTK configuration.
> Since this looks to be a common problem, has an application solved
> it in a nice way so that logview & others can use the code?

Try

#define FIXED_12_FONT "-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*-r-*"

etc. and see if that doesn't solve the problem.


PS: note that for applications needing charcell output (typically an xterm) it
is more complex.



> 
> Thanks,
> simos
> 
> 
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Pablo Saratxaga

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