Subject: RE: abiword dies before splash screen.
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2001 - 18:02:33 CST
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 13:32, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> > I do not think this is a good idea; we should not modify the user's
> > XF86Config behind the user's back. Quite appart from the potential
> > for a serious screw up this creates (XF86Config is a can of worms),
> > it just does not feel right.
>
> I agree with this.
I agree too. Regarding this bug though, we can't release a RH 7.1 rpm that
requires 90% of RH users to modify their xconfig files. This might be RH's
fault be we we have to work around it in a seemless way.
If there is no other clever work around we should revert to the previous
behaviour.
I'll make this revision by changing Tomas #if 1 => #if 0 and uncommenting
the code in the wrapper script. Feel free to come up with a clever
fix. I'll keep my stock RH X config file to test said clever solutions.
Martin
PS. I used the wrapper script too.
>
> > I do agree that we need to find a smooth way of dealing with this,
> > even though this _is_ a RH misconfiguration problem which affects
> > not only AW and of which RH has been aware for a long time.
>
> I can put cat <<EOF in the post install alerting the user for it.
>
> > There is one thing that I do not get; did you guys use to run AW via
> > the wrapper script, or did you call it directly, with the fontpath
> > added in some other way? According to the RH and our bug
> > reports xset should also not be working, in which case you should
> > have been getting the same behaviour with the wrapper script (I did
> > nothing more than moved the XSetFontPath call from the wrapper
> > script into the AW executable).
>
> I've always used the wrapper script.
>
> > So, is the RH wrapper script different than the normal Unix wrapper
> > script, or has RH 7 got a patched version of xset, or did it use to
> > work for some different reason yet? Basically, we have to find a
> > way to set the font path on RH 7, but it will take someone with RH
> > 7 to work this out.
>
> The problem here is that we're having X have fonts through the x font
> server instead of having X handle fonts.
>
> However, RH's default XF86Config-4 config file does not allow (by lack
> of loading the font handling modules) to use xset (because for that you
> need X handling fonts, and not the x font server).
>
> RH should load the modules by default, because they do not take that
> much more memory and so it won't break the usage of xset.
>
> ON RH 7.x, and 6.2, I believe as well, you have to add the abiword fonts
> to the font server config, and restart it.
>
> Hugs, rms
>
> --
> + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
> + Whatever you do will be insignificant,
> | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi
> + So let's do it...?
>
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