From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 16 17:42:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (webbsd1.turnaround.com.au [203.39.138.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CFFF15228 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 17:42:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Received: from TurnAround.com.au (dhcp64.turnaround.com.au [192.168.1.64]) by WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA16881 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:46:32 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Message-ID: <36EF08D4.4AAA80F9@TurnAround.com.au> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:43:48 +1100 From: Andrew Johns Organization: TurnAround Solutions P/L X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Gimp not rendering fonts from PC Xterminal References: <36EAA427.86ED9F84@TurnAround.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Johns wrote: > > Hmm - a tricky one here... > > I have a 3.1R system with gimp-1.0.2 installed - works well as > long as I'm running X _on the console_. > > ie: rendering text (from the script-fu's) works perfectly _but_ > only on the console. > > If I X from a PC (Labtam's PC X) it doesn't display the text - > the script-fu doesn't complain about the fonts because they are > enabled - I can even view them in the Text window object thingy > (the gimp one and also in xfontsel and they also show up on > xlsfonts) but they won't display on the image. > > TIA for any ideas - I've racked my brain but I just can't figure > this one out. Well - I discovered the problem but can't explain it aside from pointing the finger at M$ - I set my res back to 1024x768x65535 colours (from 1280x1024x256 colours) and all of a sudden it works perfectly??? -- Regards | _/\_/\ Andrew Johns BSc (Comp Sci) | / \ TurnAround Solutions Pty Ltd | \_...__/ http://www.turnaround.com.au/ | \/ "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed FreeBSD." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message