Re: [STUMP] Stumpwm won't start

[Dirk Sondermann]

Shawn Betts wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Paul R. Bernard <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'm using (on gentoo linux):
>>
>> stumpwm HEAD is now at 9d6cb38 bump version to 0.9.7-git
>> sbcl 1.0.19
>> cl-clx 0.7.1
>> xorg 7.2
>>
>> At startup I receive the following error and backtrace:
> 
>> 6: (XLIB::QUERY-FONT #<XLIB:FONT 9x15bold :0 8388614>)
>> 7: (XLIB:OPEN-FONT
>>    #<XLIB:DISPLAY :0 (The X.Org Foundation R10503000)>
>>    "9x15bold")
> 
> This is a problem that has started popping up now and then. It seems
> the way stumpwm detects fonts is somehow flawed. It thinks certain
> fonts exist when they don't. I'm curious if perhaps there's a font
> package on gentoo that you haven't installed? Perhaps you only have
> "xft" fonts installed and not the X11 scalable fonts? I've never used
> gentoo so I don't know the available packages.

"9x15bold" is part of media-fonts/font-misc-misc.

This package used to be a dependency of x11-base/xorg-server, but
since version 1.5, it has to be emerged explicitly.

Regards,
Dirk