Re: Some problems with GNUstep and Paje

[Fred Kiefer]

Tony Reix wrote:
> That made the "MIT-SHM ...." message disappear. But Paje still dont' appear on 
> my Xterminal.
> I've waited a while (10-15 mn) and I noticed that the "font_cacher"
> process is still running and consumming CPU (~ 3 mn during these 15 mn)
> and my Xterminal is still slower than usually.
>
> When I killed this font_cacher process, I got:
>
> [root@nptl Paje]# 2004-08-23 09:47:44.724 Paje[15541] File NSData.m: 153. In 
> readContentsOfFile Open (/root/GNUstep/Library/Fonts/Cache/txgia2:0.0) attempt 
> failed - No such file or directory
> 2004-08-23 09:47:44.724 Paje[15541] Error - font cache doesn't exist
> 2004-08-23 09:47:44.740 Paje[15541]
> I couldn't contact the notification server for txgia2.frec.bull.fr -
> so I'm attempting to to start one - which will take a few seconds.
> Trying to launch gdnc from /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Tools or a 
> machine/operating-system subdirectory.
> It is recommended that you start the notification server (gdnc) either at login 
> or (better) when your computer is started up.
> 2004-08-23 09:47:49.786 Paje[15541] XGFont: selected font: Helvetica at 
> 12.000000 ((nil)) is not available.
> 2004-08-23 09:47:49.786 Paje[15541] The font specified for NSFont, Helvetica, 
> can't be found.
> 2004-08-23 09:47:49.786 Paje[15541] XGFont: selected font: Helvetica at 
> 12.000000 ((nil)) is not available.
> ....

This messages are due to the font cache not being available. You should 
try to run the font_cacher manually, perhaps restricting it to specific 
fonts (defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSFontMask 
'-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'), this is described in the GNUstep 
Back documentation as a work around for X Server problems with fonts.

The other things you could do is switch to the art backend or use the 
FreeType font handling for the xlib backend, if XFT is available on your 
machine (defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSFontAntiAlias YES).

Fred