Package: wmakerconf Version: 2.9.2-2 Severity: normal
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wmakerconf helpfully offers to let me choose the font that wmaker uses for various things (window titles, etc.). However, the list of fonts that are available is different from the list of fonts that windowmaker has available. In particular, it is not aware of fontconfig fonts. So, for example, it can't find the "sans serif" alias that windowmaker defaults to, or the "Deja Vu" family of fonts I have installed locally. It also lists lots of bitmapped fonts, which I have disabled in my fontconfig setup (I have a laptop flat panel, so properly rendered and hinted vector fonts look nicer). Finally, for some reason I don't understand, it can't find the "Bitstream Vera" family of fonts, which are what I would like to be using.
I think this would be solved by using fontconfig for rendering, but I have no idea what that would involve - possibly a total rewrite in GTK2, for all I know.
The WPrefs application has the correct list of fonts, although it appears to render them without subpixel rendering.
Otherwise, I should say that wmakerconf is much nicer than WPrefs, and I use it almost exclusively.
Andrew
-- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10.050219 Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages wmakerconf depends on: ii bzip2 1.0.2-1 A high-quality block-sorting file ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-9 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk1.2 1.2.10-17 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.45-1 A collection of modules that parse ii libwraster3 0.91.0-7 Shared libraries of Window Maker r ii libwww-perl 5.803-3 WWW client/server library for Perl ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxi6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Input extension li ii wget 1.9.1-8 retrieves files from the web ii wmakerconf-data 0.80.0.1-1 Data files for wmakerconf, a confi ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu -- no debconf information
