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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:29:51
Message-Id: 358eca8f0606141521tefe2f00qb6bd4b9775a2c230@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution by Iain Buchanan
1 On 14/06/06, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote:
2
3 > Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately different encodings didn't make
4 > much difference. However, I did notice this when I started firefox from
5 > the command line:
6 >
7 > $ firefox
8 > No running windows found
9 > Warning: Cannot convert string
10 > "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type
11 > FontStruct
12 >
13 > what on earth does that mean? I tried installing
14 > font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi and font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi but
15 > that didn't seem to do anything. I think I'm barking up the wrong
16 > tree...
17
18 If changing the encoding did not help, it is worth checking your font
19 file permissions. Have a look at this thread:
20 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1427510 and the link it
21 provides at the bottom:
22 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1618075#1618075
23
24 HTH
25 --
26 Regards,
27 Mick
28 --
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Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>