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[20080920]
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GNOME (and Firefox) fonts vs. X11R7 vs. pkgsrc
So I have upgraded my NetBSD 4.0 installation with a -current build with
MKXORG=yes, and then built pkgsrc/meta-pkgs/gnome for the past
few days. Starting up gnome-session just gave me little rectangles
instead of fonts. GRMBL!!!1!
With some investigation, GNOME used pkgsrc's fontconfig goo, which
doesn't include any fonts - which is about what it displays. To fix,
/usr/pkg/etc/fontconfig/fonts.conf can be adjusted to also look
in /usr/X11R6 (which I still have from my NetBSD 4.0 installation)
and /usr/X11R7 (thanks to MKXORG=yes):
--- /usr/pkg/etc/fontconfig/fonts.conf.orig 2008-09-10 18:05:47.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/pkg/etc/fontconfig/fonts.conf
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
<!-- Font directory list -->
+ <dir>/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
+ <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/pkg/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
<dir>/usr/pkg/share/ghostscript/fonts</dir>
<dir>~/.fonts</dir>
I hope this helps anyone encountering a similar situation (including
future incarnations of myself ;). (And if you ask "WTF GNOME?" - I
wanted to have another look, after my last attempt at using GNOME
is now several years ago :-)
P.S.: This also fixes fonts on firefox. Yai!
[Tags: gnome, pkgsrc, xorg]
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