Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 74370
FVWM fails to draw buttons -- can't load fontset fixed
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:03 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) Description of problem: FVWM fails to draw the buttons on the button bar. These buttons are added for each window opened on the desktop. This makes it difficult to switch among windows when they are obscurred. It also fails to print the window names on the button bar desktop display. The error messages on the console screen where startx was run say [FVWM] [GetFontSetofFixed]: WARNING -- can't get fontset fixed, trying 'fixed' FvwmButtons: Couldn't load fontset fixed FvwmIconMan: Can't get fontset FvwmPager: Can't find find 'lucidasanstypewriter-12', using fixed. However, xfontsel and xlsfonts do display fixed and lucidasanstypewriter-12 fonts. I installed FVWM 2.4.11 from www.fvwm.org and FVWM ran fine and was able to find the fonts and draw the buttons and window titles. The error messages are similar to those reported for bug 73285, but the symptoms are different (in 73285 fvwm did not run at all). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install fvwm and fvwm-icons 2. switchdesk fvwm 3. startx Actual Results: FVWM runs, but there are no buttons for each window in the button bar and the window names are not printed in the desktop display. Error messages "Can't find fontset fixed" and so on. See description. Expected Results: Buttons and window titles. No error messages. Additional info:
Forget to mention--this problem occurs both with RH 7.3 as distributed on CD and after running up2date on 9/21/02 and updating all packages.
Couple more details -- tests were done on SMP machines running smp kernels. The problem showed up on two separate machines/installs.
*** Bug 73285 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
please try fvwm2-2.4.14-1 from ftp://people.redhat.com/than/7.3 It should fix this problem.