wine users - Aug 2004 - Font troubles: Wine always uses Baekmuk

Hello!

I have installed Wine through Debian without any existing Windows
partition. However, I cannot get the fonts to display correctly. I don't
want to install the Microsoft fonts because that somehow messes up the
Pango aliases, affecting IceWM and GTK2. I could not figure out how to
solve that. Anyway, I'd rather use the FreeSans font as the default
system font, and also map Arial and Helvetica to it.

With the default Wine configuration, however, Wine always substitutes
the Baekmuk font, which looks very ugly. It seems to be the first
available TrueType font or so. But xfontsel shows a nice sans-serif font
for -adobe-helvetica-. I've also tried to set the default font to
FreeSans (e.g. -*-freesans-, and various other things) or just sans.
Nimbus Sans L would also be fine.

I've noticed something even more strange. In an app of my own, where I
can set the font to use, I can set the font to FreeSans and it really
uses that font (it's just a little small). However, if I set it to
Helvetica and add an alias from Helvetica to FreeSans, it still uses
Baekmuk instead.

Could the problem have something to do with XFT? Wine displays fonts in
a nice antialiased way, whereas xfontsel doesn't. Well, I really don't
have a clue. Maybe my X font setup is messed up, too.

Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

-- 
Sebastian Reichelt

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 05:06:04PM +0200, Sebastian Reichelt
wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have installed Wine through Debian without any existing Windows
> partition. However, I cannot get the fonts to display correctly. I
don't
> want to install the Microsoft fonts because that somehow messes up the
> Pango aliases, affecting IceWM and GTK2. I could not figure out how to
> solve that. Anyway, I'd rather use the FreeSans font as the default
> system font, and also map Arial and Helvetica to it.
> 
> With the default Wine configuration, however, Wine always substitutes
> the Baekmuk font, which looks very ugly. It seems to be the first
> available TrueType font or so. But xfontsel shows a nice sans-serif font
> for -adobe-helvetica-. I've also tried to set the default font to
> FreeSans (e.g. -*-freesans-, and various other things) or just sans.
> Nimbus Sans L would also be fine.
> 
> I've noticed something even more strange. In an app of my own, where I
> can set the font to use, I can set the font to FreeSans and it really
> uses that font (it's just a little small). However, if I set it to
> Helvetica and add an alias from Helvetica to FreeSans, it still uses
> Baekmuk instead.
Hmm... I remember that in another message, someone got an error fixme
mentioning how wine was only using the first font.  Is this possibly
your issue - that Baekmuk is the first font alphabetically in your font
list?  You might be interested in looking into fixing this in the code
by creating a config option to select a font - try asking wine-devel.

You might also want to look and see if your alias is working, if it
works in linux apps, and if wine supports aliases.
> Could the problem have something to do with XFT? Wine displays fonts in
> a nice antialiased way, whereas xfontsel doesn't. Well, I really
don't
> have a clue. Maybe my X font setup is messed up, too.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions you might have.
> 
> -- 
> Sebastian Reichelt
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