When starting xboard in a terminal, the following was output and the program failed to start: ----- begin output ----- X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist) Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont) Serial number of failed request: 16 Current serial number in output stream: 17 ----- end output ----- After installing media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi, xboard works okay. Perhaps this needs to be added as a dependency? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge xboard. 2. Unmerge font-adobe-100dpi (if present). 3. Attempt to start xboard.
xboard failed to start w/ this message but that font is installed. I tried current unstable version 4.4.1 too w/o luck.
You can use the -font option to use whatever font you like. There's no strict dep on media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi so there's no reason to force people to install that font package.
*** Bug 291630 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #2) > You can use the -font option to use whatever font you like. I unmerged media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.0 and tried this: $> xlsfonts | xargs -n 1 xboard -font w/o success :-(
xlsfonts -l | awk '{ print $NF }' | grep ^- | xargs -n1 xboard -font
(In reply to comment #5) > xlsfonts -l | awk '{ print $NF }' | grep ^- | xargs -n1 xboard -font > no success BTW I've these installed : tfoerste@n22 ~ $ equery l font | grep media media-fonts/corefonts-1-r4 media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.0 media-fonts/font-alias-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-cursor-misc-1.0.0 media-fonts/font-misc-misc-1.0.0 media-fonts/font-util-1.0.1 media-fonts/font-xfree86-type1-1.0.1 media-fonts/freefonts-0.10-r3 media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std-8.11 media-fonts/intlfonts-1.2.1 media-fonts/terminus-font-4.28 media-libs/fontconfig-2.6.0-r2
