xorg 6.8.0-r1 and enlightenment

bme · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2003 Posts: 15

I just emerged xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1 and enlightenment "works" but all the text in all the dialogs has become microscopic... Anyone know why and how to fix this?

schnitter · n00b Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 2

This helped me: I switched to another theme

GatorBait · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 19

I have the same problem. Changing the theme did nothing to help. Even deleting the .enlightenment folder and starting Enlightenment new didn't work either. Even tried re-emerging Enlightenment, but that also doesn't fix the problem.

So, now I'm emerging KDE 3.3 .... wish E17 was out!!

returnthis · n00b Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 10

ascl · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 4

Hmmm, how did you change theme? I tried changing the DEFAULT link in /usr/share/enlightenment, but that didn't help.

A fix for this would be very handy.... unreadable menu text aint great.

EDIT: Hmmm, reading through some old mails one the enlightenment list gives this:

returnthis · n00b Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 10

grzewho · l33t Joined: 31 Dec 2002 Posts: 626 Location: /home/g

you can also modify the font sizes in your theme`s config files. (very easy IMO)
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GatorBait · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 19

OK ... changing the theme is PARTLY right ...

Seems there is a problem "finding' the Lucida font. So if you pick a theme using that font, you will get the whacky little menus.

Picking a theme that does NOT use the Lucida font will work as it's supposed to.

I have tested this thoroughly ... even to the point of completely removing XOrg and Enlightenment from my system and doing a fresh emerge.

Now, why the Lucida is missing ... I'm still working on that!! ;-)

grzewho · l33t Joined: 31 Dec 2002 Posts: 626 Location: /home/g

the fonts that e`s themes use are in your_theme_dir/ttfonts
e doesn`t use the globally installed fonts (like your xorg`s or xfs`s ones)
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GatorBait · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 19

Interesting ... so why would emerging Xorg-6.8 break a theme?

Xorg wouldn't be updating any Enlightenment themes (or fonts) ... yet this is exactly what happened with my system.

grzewho · l33t Joined: 31 Dec 2002 Posts: 626 Location: /home/g

I`m very sorry, but you are not right. Enlightenment 16 uses its own fonts and that is for sure. Dunno what happend to your fonts anyway
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GatorBait · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 19

You are misunderstanding what I said ... I said that an XOrg emerge would NOT be updating the Enlightenment fonts ... so it is a mystery as to why the theme would stop working.

XOrg 6.8 was the only package I updated on my system, so the Enlightenment theme/font problem is related to the XOrg 6.8 emerge (from XOrg 6.7).

And the /usr/share/enlightenment/themes/BrushedMetal-Tigert-xcursors/ttfonts directory from a fresh Enlightenment emerge is empty! (which is the default theme for Enlightenment)

The menustyles.cfg file for this theme has this entry:
__TCLASS __BGN
__NAME "MENU"
__JUSTIFICATION 0

__NORMAL "-*-lucida-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1"
__DRAWING_EFFECT __EFFECT_NONE
__FORGROUND_COLOR 0 0 0
__BACKGROUND_COLOR 0 0 0

__HILITED "-*-lucida-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1"
__DRAWING_EFFECT __EFFECT_SHADOW

So where does it get the fonts from, since the ttfonts directory is empty? Could there be a system font substitution going on in previous versions of X (Xfree86)?

GatorBait · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 19

OK .. I just checked my home Gentoo system for comparison (still running XOrg 6.7.0).

Of the four installed Enlightenment themes, only BlueSteel and Ganymede have fonts installed in the ttfonts directory. I also checked several themes that I downloaded, and about 25% do NOT have fonts installed in the ttfonts directory (some don't even have a ttfonts directory!).

All of these themes DO work with XFree86 and XOrg 6.7.0-r1. However, the ones without theme fonts do not render the menus correctly with XOrg 6.8.0.

This does lead me to think that some type of system font substitution was occurring in the previous versions of X with the themes that do not include a font.

Tamsco · Guru Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 313 Location: dmse.mit.edu

Does anyone have a list of the lucida free themes. I know BlueSteel is, but are any of the other ones? Should I just stick with one font.
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ascl · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 4

I'd prefer to know where I can grab the missing font. I am pretty sure that enlightenment will use X/system fonts. It may use its own fonts in preference, but it should grab the system fonts too.

GatorBait · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 19

Yeah .. I haven't tried finding the lucida font yet. I'm now using the Arctic theme and like it (no lucida required).

ascl, to answer your earlier question about setting your default theme, just edit the $userhome/.enlightenment/user_theme.cfg file. Erase the existing entry and put in the name of the theme (same name as the /usr/share/enlightenment/themes/"theme_name" directory). So mine has a single line that says: arctic

ascl · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 4

Haven't tried this (at work atm) but the X de-uglification http://www.linux.com/howtos/FDU/end.shtml howto says that lucida can be acquired:

fluzz · n00b Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 8 Location: uk

file not found

im having the same problems but which ever theme i use i still have no fonts

GatorBait · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 19

Fluzz,

try editing your ~/.enlightenment/user_theme.cfg file so that it says "BlueSteel" on the first line (and nothing else).

Then start Enlightenment and see if the menus are readable. The BlueSteel theme is one that is installed with Enlightenment and doesn't use the Lucida font.

If you are entering a theme name in the user_theme.cfg file that you haven't installed, you will get an error.

BlakeJob · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 80

Anyone find a "real" solution to this? I just came across this problem as well :-(

hybridcargeek · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 18

A few posts ago asci suggested manually downloading the ttf files for lucida. Inspired by this comment I located the ttf files that were installed as a part of dev-java/blackdown-jre on my system. I copied the ttf files into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF and tried to swich back to my preferred enlightenment theme. No luck. Has anyone else had any luck with manually providing font files for lucida?

GatorBait · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 19

Have you tried copying the font files into the ttfonts directory?
(/usr/share/enlightenement/themes/"your_favorite_theme_name"/ttfonts)

I think that will be the first place most themes will look ...

tomc4t · n00b Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 16

Hey guys, i have the same problem with lucida...
Now is really late (3 AM) but tomorrow i will write a little HowTo to fix the problem and i will signal the "bug" at the ebuild maintener!

Pe patient, just 7 hours of sleep!!

r0ot · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 3

I wish I knew about this thread earlier. Yesterday was my first time installing Enlightenment with the new Xorg 6.8, and that had me confused for hours on end until I figured out how to change themes. Anyway, I've been searching on the internet for this Lucida font, and it seems to be a commercial font that costs $$ to download. Can anybody with Xorg 6.7 find this particular Lucida font on their system?

Also, hybridcargeek: Did you copy *only* the TTF files? If I'm not mistaken, you need to run mkfontdir and mkfontscale under the new directory.

tomc4t · n00b Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 16

My HOWTO:

Ok, the problem seems to be a resolved bug of 6.8 Xorg.
The bug is 1441 located at http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1441

lucida fonts are not generated.
What to do:
emerge the packages for Xorg without compiling: