[mcclim-devel] Re: clim-demo::demodemo fails with some kind of font problem

[Eric Marsden]

>>>>> "lc" == Larry Clapp <larry at theclapp.org> writes:

  lc> % xlsfonts | grep adobe-helvetica-medium-r-[^-]*-[^-]*-24-
  lc> -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-p-130-iso10646-1
  lc> -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-p-130-iso8859-1
  lc> 
  lc> Why would xlib:list-font-names return a font that I don't actually
  lc> have installed, when two fonts that I *do* have installed match the
  lc> given pattern?

  I believe that the problem you describe is due to a bug in Xorg
  
    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.lispworks.general/5285

  but maybe it's up to applications to understand the font size of 0
  as an indication that the font is scalable, so to ask for it at some
  other size.
  
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Eric Marsden