wcmd - continued font problems

Tony Lambregts tony_lambregts at telusplanet.net
Fri Jan 3 22:47:38 CST 2003


Mark Knecht wrote:

>Tony, et. all,
>   Hi. Happy Holidays.
>
>   I'm still struggling along with getting Wine to really run on an
>important audio machine. I have run Wine now on 3 machines:
>
>1) An older Redhat 7.0 machine running Gnome
>2) An up-to date Redhat 7.3 machine running KDE used for office type
>applications
>3) An up to date Redhat 7.3 machine running KDE used for Pro Audio
>applications
>
>   The results running wcmd are:
>
>Machine 1) wcmd runs with no error messages
>
>Machine 2) wcmd runs, but gives the following messages:
>
>[mark at hindemith mark]$ wcmd
>err:wineconsole:WCUSER_SetFont wrong font
>err:wineconsole:WCUSER_SetFont wrong font
>[mark at hindemith mark]$
>
>Machine 3) wcmd fails to run with the error messages:
>
>[mark at Godzilla mark]$ wcmd
>err:wineconsole:WINECON_Fatal Couldn't find a decent font, aborting
>
>[mark at Godzilla mark]$
>
>
>   So, to some extent it looks like it's possible to set up RH7.3 using KDE
>and get Wine to run wcmd. I need to get Wine running on Machine #3, and am
>studying the differences between machines #2 & #3, but haven't discovered
>what matters yet.
>
>   Wine actually does run on machine #3, but fails to install many
>applications due to font problems. The only response I got from the
>developers was to try installing more fixed sized fonts. This is too vague
>for a putz like me to execute successfully, and besides, I don't like
>guessing!
>
>   Has anyone else run into these error messages in recent history? If so,
>how have you solved your problems?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Mark
>  
>
Some comparison of what fonts are loaded on each machine would be 
interesting (if they are the same then looking at the logs with 
-debugmsg +font in the command line  might shed some light on the issue.)

-- 

Tony Lambregts






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