PAN and fontconfig problem

johnoh99 · n00b Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 3

I did 'emerge -u world' to latest world and X windows, i think it installed xft 2.0,
then i emerged PAN news reader, but when i try to run it, it only gives me this error msg, and i have no idea what is wrong.
anyone help please!
thanks
john

$ pan
No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig
library is not correctly configured. You may need to
edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information
about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual
page and on http://fontconfig.org

johnoh99 · n00b Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 3

I copied verdana.ttf from /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/truetype to ~/.fonts
then it solved,
i don't get it, why gentoo setup (or whatever) requires at least one font file in ~/.fonts directory?
thanks

David_Escott · l33t Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 952 Location: Boston, MA

I doubt that "solved" it. Sounds like fontconfig is legitimately not set up correctly and when you put the veranda.ttf in .fonts pan was able to find a font to use but I dont think you will be able to get any of the other fonts on your system.

johnoh99 · n00b Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 3

thanks,
anyone knows how to setup fontconfig? man page is like programmer's guide with only explaining functions.