Comment 20 for bug 6855

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: 10 Sep 2004 14:34:34 -0400
From: Gregory Stark <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Me Too

I've found how to avoid and reproduce this problem, at least on my system. The
evidence seems to lead to libgtk having trouble looking up the Trebuchet font
when using the builtin XFree86 TrueType engine against MS truetype fonts.

If I run vmware with this font path I see the problem:

  /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType
  unix/:7110
  unix/:7101
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi

If I run vmware with this font path then I don't:

  unix/:7110
  unix/:7101
  /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
  /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi

As you can see the only difference is the position of the defoma TrueType
directory relative to the font servers.

My defoma TrueType directory contains the following fonts. Notably it includes
Trebuchet which the ltrace appears to show libgtk bombing out trying to fetch:

Andale_Mono.ttf
Arial.ttf
Arial_Black.ttf
Arial_Bold.ttf
Arial_Bold_Italic.ttf
Arial_Italic.ttf
Balker.ttf
Comic_Sans_MS.ttf
Comic_Sans_MS_Bold.ttf
Courier_New.ttf
Courier_New_Bold.ttf
Courier_New_Bold_Italic.ttf
Courier_New_Italic.ttf
Domestic_Manners.ttf
Dustismo.ttf
Dustismo_Roman.ttf
Dustismo_Roman_Bold.ttf
Dustismo_Roman_Italic.ttf
Dustismo_Roman_Italic_Bold.ttf
El_Abogado_Loco.ttf
FreeMono.ttf
FreeMonoBold.ttf
FreeMonoBoldOblique.ttf
FreeMonoOblique.ttf
FreeSans.ttf
FreeSansBold.ttf
FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf
FreeSansOblique.ttf
FreeSerif.ttf
FreeSerifBold.ttf
FreeSerifBoldItalic.ttf
FreeSerifItalic.ttf
Georgia.ttf
Georgia_Bold.ttf
Georgia_Bold_Italic.ttf
Georgia_Italic.ttf
Impact.ttf
It_wasn_t_me.ttf
Junkyard.ttf
MarkedFool.ttf
PenguinAttack.ttf
Swift.ttf
Times_New_Roman.ttf
Times_New_Roman_Bold.ttf
Times_New_Roman_Bold_Italic.ttf
Times_New_Roman_Italic.ttf
Trebuchet_MS.ttf
Trebuchet_MS_Bold.ttf
Trebuchet_MS_Bold_Italic.ttf
Trebuchet_MS_Italic.ttf
Vera.ttf
VeraBI.ttf
VeraBd.ttf
VeraIt.ttf
VeraMoBI.ttf
VeraMoBd.ttf
VeraMoIt.ttf
VeraMono.ttf
VeraSe.ttf
VeraSeBd.ttf
Verdana.ttf
Verdana_Bold.ttf
Verdana_Bold_Italic.ttf
Verdana_Italic.ttf
Wargames.ttf
Webdings.ttf
Winks.ttf
dustismo_bold.ttf
dustismo_bold_italic.ttf
dustismo_italic.ttf
encodings.dir
flatline.ttf
fonts.alias
fonts.dir
fonts.scale
luximb.ttf
luximbi.ttf
luximr.ttf
luximri.ttf
luxirb.ttf
luxirbi.ttf
luxirr.ttf
luxirri.ttf
luxisb.ttf
luxisbi.ttf
luxisr.ttf
luxisri.ttf
progenisis.ttf

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greg