Background: I run an NT 4.0 installation that also boots to my primary Linux (Red Hat 9) sitting on a partition in a second drive. Earlier, after installing Red Hat 9, I tried to install wine, but it Had Problems, even when I tried some of the solutions. So I waited. Recently, I tried to install an updated version of wine using an rpm, so I tried to unstall the old stuff. Wouldn't uninstall, and the rpm wouldn't install. So I deleted as much as I could figure out was there, verified that the rpm still wouldn't install (I assume it is on a database somewhere), downloaded the tarball for wine 20041201 and tried to install that. Worked. But did I add bugs? The problem: Fonts stink. Menu fonts stink. More specifically, NotePad fonts stunk. Looks like a billboard through a drenched windshield with the wipers off. conf file the conf file has this: [fonts] "Default" = "-adobe-helvetica-" "DefaultFixed" = "fixed" "DefaultSerif" = "-adobe-times-" "DefaultSansSerif" = "-adobe-helvetica-" [FontDirs] "dir1" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF" ... "dir4" = "/home/david/wine-20041201/fonts/" ... That last, btw, enabled a few more fonts in the Notepad menu, but they continued ugly, but not as much. Other tries: I tried running "fnt2bdf --help" by going into the wine-20041201 folder, but "Corrupt or invalid file." was its answer. Further interesting facts: When I ssh notepad from my Mandrake laptop, I have the same problem, but when I run it on the laptop directly, there is no problem. Questions: 1. Back to my earlier question. Did I add bugs by possibly not cleaning out the old installation? 2. Is there a make file of some sort that goes with the source code of fnt2bdf? 3+. Is this perhaps a problem in Red Hat 9, or X windows, or KDE? KDE fonts look fine. If KDE is fine, can I assume that RH9 is also? How do I test X windows fonts to see if the problem is there. 4. Can I add ntfs directories into the FontDirs? or would it try to write to file? 5. What additional facts should I supply? 6. What obvious thing am I missing? <sigh> -- blessings, David L. Smith
I'm not sure if you added more bugs, but honestly, I don't rely on Wine RPMs because I can never get them to work properly (although others will swear up and down that they have no problems with it.) So, I install via source. As far as fonts go, I typically just copy all the fonts from my REAL c:/windows/system/fonts directory into my FAKE wine_cDrive/windows/system/fonts That usually helps tons. Otherwise, I don't mess with any other settings. Hiji --- "David L. Smith" <smithfamily@oswego.net> wrote:> Background: > I run an NT 4.0 installation that also boots to my > primary Linux (Red Hat 9) > sitting on a partition in a second drive. Earlier, > after installing Red Hat > 9, I tried to install wine, but it Had Problems, > even when I tried some of > the solutions. So I waited. Recently, I tried to > install an updated version > of wine using an rpm, so I tried to unstall the old > stuff. Wouldn't > uninstall, and the rpm wouldn't install. So I > deleted as much as I could > figure out was there, verified that the rpm still > wouldn't install (I assume > it is on a database somewhere), downloaded the > tarball for wine 20041201 and > tried to install that. Worked. But did I add bugs? > > The problem: > Fonts stink. Menu fonts stink. More specifically, > NotePad fonts stunk. Looks > like a billboard through a drenched windshield with > the wipers off. > > conf file > the conf file has this: > [fonts] > "Default" = "-adobe-helvetica-" > "DefaultFixed" = "fixed" > "DefaultSerif" = "-adobe-times-" > "DefaultSansSerif" = "-adobe-helvetica-" > > [FontDirs] > "dir1" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF" > ... > "dir4" = "/home/david/wine-20041201/fonts/" > ... > That last, btw, enabled a few more fonts in the > Notepad menu, but they > continued ugly, but not as much. > > Other tries: > I tried running "fnt2bdf --help" by going into the > wine-20041201 folder, but > "Corrupt or invalid file." was its answer. > > Further interesting facts: > When I ssh notepad from my Mandrake laptop, I have > the same problem, but when > I run it on the laptop directly, there is no > problem. > > Questions: > 1. Back to my earlier question. Did I add bugs by > possibly not cleaning out > the old installation? > > 2. Is there a make file of some sort that goes with > the source code of > fnt2bdf? > > 3+. Is this perhaps a problem in Red Hat 9, or X > windows, or KDE? KDE fonts > look fine. If KDE is fine, can I assume that RH9 is > also? How do I test X > windows fonts to see if the problem is there. > > 4. Can I add ntfs directories into the FontDirs? or > would it try to write to > file? > > 5. What additional facts should I supply? > > 6. What obvious thing am I missing? <sigh> > > -- > blessings, > David L. Smith > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.org > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users >__________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page – Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com
--- "David L. Smith" <smithfamily@oswego.net> a ?crit :> Background: > I run an NT 4.0 installation that also boots to my primary Linux (Red Hat 9) > sitting on a partition in a second drive. Earlier, after installing Red Hat > 9, I tried to install wine, but it Had Problems, even when I tried some of > the solutions. So I waited. Recently, I tried to install an updated version > of wine using an rpm, so I tried to unstall the old stuff. Wouldn't > uninstall, and the rpm wouldn't install. So I deleted as much as I couldbetter read doc about rpm, "rpm -Uvh winepackage.rpm" should update it. you dont need to uninstall anything.> 4. Can I add ntfs directories into the FontDirs? or would it try to write to > file?avoid using ntfs directories, as usually they arent writable.> > 6. What obvious thing am I missing? <sigh>"Wouldn't uninstall, and the rpm wouldn't install." => make sure you are root to do that... ====Sylvain Petreolle (spetreolle_at_users_dot_sourceforge_dot_net) humans are like computers, yesterday the BIOS was all - today its just a word