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Date:      Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:43:48 +1100
From:      Andrew Johns <A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au>
To:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Gimp not rendering fonts from PC Xterminal
Message-ID:  <36EF08D4.4AAA80F9@TurnAround.com.au>
References:  <36EAA427.86ED9F84@TurnAround.com.au>

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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???

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"The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I
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