Bug 46739 – I successfully emerged chinput, when I invoke it, I got a response: Cannot open font -*-*-*-*-*--16-*-*-*-*-*-big5-0

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Lance Zhang 2004-04-03 20:12:55 UTC]

chinput is a Chinese input method. I use KDE as my window manager. When I invoke chinput from KDE, it prints the message and quit. I was wondering if the font was really absent in the ebuild.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.# emerge chinput
2.open a konsole in KDE, and type in: chinput &
3.

Actual Results:  
This was the printed message: 
Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) 
Basic: Cannot open font -*-*-*-*-*--16-*-*-*-*-*-big5-0 
 

Expected Results:  
a small bar should appear somewhere on top of the desktop. Where I can switch 
between Chinese mode and English mode, and input correspondly. 

Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 
2.6.2-gentoo-r2) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.2-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 
ccache version 2.3 [enabled] 
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo 
ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/ 
ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/ 
http://adelie.polymtl.ca/" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dvd encode foomaticdb gdbm 
gif gpm gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg 
ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt 
quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv 
zlib"

[Comment 1 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2004-04-04 03:28:21 UTC]

so do you have any chinese fonts in X? 

do: xlsfonts | grep -i big5 

[Comment 2 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2004-06-26 14:13:26 UTC]

needinfo