[Wine] No fonts are shown in winecfg

[Steven Pasternak]

Daniel Skorka wrote:
> Truppe Steven <steven.truppe at chello.at> wrote:
>   
>> i've downloaded the latest wine release and the other packages necessary
>> (fontforge, cabextract)
>>     
>
> Did you download the source and built it yourself, or did you get the
> RPM? In the second case, you don't need fontforge. I also didn't know
> cabextract was considered necessary, I have been doing fine without.
>
>   
>> but after the installation was fine i tried to run winecfg ... i see a
>> window with a few tabs but i
>> see no text at all! I tried to copy some fonts from ie4linux into my
>> /home/use/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts directory but nothing changed.
>>     
>
> Did you try 
> $ rm -fr ~/.wine && winecfg
> ?
>
>   
>> Does someone know where i can get some error output (because a $ find /
>> -name "wine*log" shows no file), and how to see text ?? i've searched
>>     
>
> Wine doesn't create logfiles. You need to use WINEDEBUG="foo" (see "man
> wine") to get more debug information. In your case, I think the correct
> debug channel is called "font".
>
> Daniel
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>   
I had this problem on an FC3 and 5 system, and I had to install the m$ 
fonts ( http://corefonts.sf.net ).