Bug 351811

Created attachment 237081 [details]
Icewm without fonts

Rasmus,

Can you start the xrdp session with no WM (only console); start the icewm from
the console and post the console output?
AFAIR xrdp is based on Xvnc, that, least on my machine - seems to work just
fine. Can you confirm that other WM are working on xrdp?

- Gilboa

Created attachment 240221 [details]
Console output when starting icewm from the console

Gilboa,

Thank you for your reply. I have attached the output from the console window.
I'm also using Xvnc. I can confirm that twm works fine.

Thanks,
Rasmus

Its seems that somehow the X's font configuration is completely busted.
Icewm simply cannot load the Xft fonts.

Can you try gnome-session and/or startkde from the same console?

- Gilboa

Or perhaps the fonts are just missing? It's a very minimalistic installation.
Sorry I didn't make that clear from the start.

$ rpm -qa|grep -i font|sort
chkfontpath-1.10.1-1.1
fontconfig-2.4.2-3.fc7
libfontenc-1.0.4-2.fc7
libXfont-1.2.9-2.fc7
xorg-x11-fonts-base-7.1-3.fc7
xorg-x11-font-utils-7.1-5.fc7

I dont't have gnome or kde installed. So I did a gnome install (yum -y
groupinstall 'GNOME Desktop Environment') on a similar machine and it worked
fine. And after that icewm also worked. But I suspect that's just because some
fonts got installed together with gnome.

$ rpm -qa|grep -i font|sort
chkfontpath-1.10.1-1.1
fontconfig-2.4.2-3.fc7
fontconfig-2.4.2-3.fc7
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-16.fc7
libfontenc-1.0.4-2.fc7
libXfont-1.2.9-2.fc7
libXfontcache-1.0.4-1.fc7
urw-fonts-2.3-6.1.1
xorg-x11-fonts-base-7.1-3.fc7
xorg-x11-font-utils-7.1-5.fc7

After removing urw-fonts and ghostscript-fonts icewm looked as the screenshot again.

Thanks,
Rasmus

Seems that urw-fonts + ghostscript-fonts should be added to requires.

I'll add them to the next IceWM build.

- Gilboa

Or perhaps xorg-x11-fonts-truetype? I don't know which font package is preferred
in a minimal installation.

Thanks,
Rasmus

Sorry for the long delay. (Waited for a new upstream before pushing the fix)
Fixed in 1.2.35-1.

icewm-1.2.35-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update icewm'

icewm-1.2.35-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update icewm'

Re-opening.
xorg-truetype was removed from devel. Looking for another solution.

- Gilboa

icewm-1.2.35-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

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Can you change it to Fedora 9?
I'll try to find a solution before the next icewm release.

- Gilboa

... Forgot that I can do it.
Currently effects F8,9 and EL4/5.

- Gilboa

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