On 2016-03-02, <to...@tuxteam.de> <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 05:22:21PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: >> On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 13:09 +0000, Curt wrote: >> > I don't how to solve this problem. Why an open source program would >> > ask >> > for a proprietary font in order to work is beyond my comprehension. >> >> I doubt it needs it, it wouldn't be in Debian main if it did. >> >> I'm guessing this is some configuration you, or a program you ran, >> made. > > Yeah, I'd think so -- but where is it? The canonical places are either > in ~/.Xresources or somewhere in /etc/X11/app-defaults. Curt -- can you > have a look?
Removed all mention of verdana fonts in ~/.Xresources and ~/.Xdefaults (did I put them there? Dunno) and the application (display) now opens without complaint (after resourcing the above-mentioned configs with xrdb). Thanks to you Tomas. I'm calling it a night. > regards > - -- t > > -- Hypertext--or should I say the ideology of hypertext?--is ultrademocratic and so entirely in harmony with the demagogic appeals to cultural democracy that accompany (and distract one’s attention from) the ever-tightening grip of plutocratic capitalism. - Susan Sontag
