Re: Helvetica

[Thomas Gamper]

Hi!

I've installed the art backend and now everything works fine.
Thanks

TOM

Gregory John Casamento <greg_casamento@yahoo.com> schrieb:

> Thomas,
> 
> --- Thomas Gamper <e0107543@student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I've updated my GNustep system using Startup 0.10 and installed Gorm
0.9.2,
> > when I try to start Gorm or any other application I get this error
> > 
> > openapp Gorm
> > 2005-04-03 16:30:04.000 Gorm[10600] Created standard directory
> > /home/eiszapfen2000/GNUstep/Library/Colors
> > 2005-04-03 16:30:04.000 Gorm[10600] The font specified for NSFont,
> Helvetica,
> > can't be found.
> 
> <snipped>
> 
> > 
> > In /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Fonts is a folder Helvetica.nfont, so why
> does
> > Gnustep not find it?
> > 
> > Thanks for your help
> > 
> > TOM
> 
> If you're using xlib (which I believe is the default for Startup) and you
> don't
> have Helvetica installed under X (since Xlib relies on the installed X fonts
> exclusively), you'll get this error.   Under art, it's not a problem since
the
> Helvetica font is included.
> 
> If you have libart installed, I would suggest that you switch to the art
> backend.  See below:
> 
> 1) Go to the "back" directory, under core.
> 2) ./configure --enable-graphics=art 
> 3) make
> 4) Then su to root.
> 5) . /usr/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh 
> 6) make install.
> 7) Log out of root.
> 
> Once this is done, back-art is installed as your default backend.  You
should
> be able to start up applications just fine.  It should "just work".
> 
> If you want to stay with the xlib backend, which works, but is somewhat
buggy,
> you should do the following:
> 
> defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSFont <Whatever font you want>
> defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSFontSize <some size>
> 
> This will set the default NSFont for you.  You may have to make other
> settings.
>  Please let me know if this works for you.
> 
> Later, GJC
> 
> Gregory John Casamento 
> -- CEO/President Open Logic Corp. (A MD Corp.)
> ## Maintainer of Gorm (IB Equiv.) for GNUstep.
>