[plt-scheme] DrScheme on SunRay, no fonts

From: Jarrett Lee (jalee at valdosta.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 4 12:36:01 EST 2009

On Mar 4, 2009, at 12:20, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> At Tue, 3 Mar 2009 14:46:49 -0500, Jarrett Lee wrote:
>> On Mar 3, 2009, at 14:33, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>>> What output do you get for
>>>
>>> mred -e '(get-face-list)'
>>>
>>> on both the server console and the thin client?
>>
>> I figure it's probably best to attach the two outputs since they are
>> so long.
>
> For some reason, DrScheme is looking at only traditional X11 fonts,  
> and
> not fontconfig fonts. Worse, on DTU, it can't find "-*-lucida" or
> "-*-courier", and whatever ends up being the default is (I guess)  
> blank
> for ASCII characters.
>
> Just to make sure that DrScheme is really compiled for Xft, can you
> send me your entire "configure_output.txt" and "config.log"? Maybe
> something later is disabling it.
>



I contacted Sun about the issue and they are looking into whether or  
not SunRay X servers disable any fonts or sources of fonts.

Here are the files you requested.

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