Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 176306
unable to start miniChinput due to font setting
Last modified: 2014-03-25 20:52:51 EDT
Description of problem: chinput is not able to start because it tires to load a font which does not exist. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): miniChinput-0.0.3-56.0.i386 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.open terminal and run the command 'chinput' 2. 3. Actual results: Chinput Version 3.0.2 -- XIM Server Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) Basic: Cannot open font -misc-zysong18030-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso10646-1 Expected results: starts chinput properly Additional info: Checked with maintainer and confirmed the changes made to the file /usr/lib/Chinput/Chinput.ad, will allow the chinput to start properly. --- /usr/lib/Chinput/Chinput.ad 2005-12-20 23:23:09.000000000 -0500 +++ /usr/lib/Chinput/Chinput.ad.new 2005-12-20 23:25:41.000000000 -0500 @@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ ! 16 point font set ! chinput.font = 8x16 -chinput.gbfont = -misc-zysong18030-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0 -chinput.gbkfont = -misc-zysong18030-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gbk-0 -chinput.gb18030font = -misc-zysong18030-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso10646-1 +chinput.gbfont = -misc-ZYSong18030-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0 +chinput.gbkfont = -*-*-*-*-*--0-0-0-0-*-0-gbk-0 +chinput.gb18030font = -*-*-*-*-*--0-0-0-0-*-0-iso10646-1 chinput.big5font = -taipei-ming-medium-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-160-big5-0 ! !
After I research it in more detail I found that this is not the bug of miniChinput. The occurrence of this problem because the system didn't config fonts correctly. If you execute command "xlsfonts" you will find there is no font name about zysong18030 in the list. To config fonts correctly just need to execute the following commands: $ xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/zh_CN/TrueType $ xset fp rehash And then without changing Chinput.ad, miniChinput will also start OK.
That's great but that would that involved having end users to entering the command everytime the system restarts? If so, perhaps modifying Chinput.ad and rebuild the package will be more beneficial to end users. What do you think?
Can someone look into the problem when X does not include fontpath of /usr/share/fonts/zh_CN/TrueType. i.e. Please check /etc/X11/fs/config?
This problem occurs because of the use of vnc. After re-setup vncserver the problem is gone and miniChinput starts OK.
Thanks for looking into this issue so promptly. Starting vnc with the X font server using -fp option will allow the fonts to load properly. vncserver -geometry 800x600 -fp unix/:7100