Installing gnuchess/xboard messes up menu fonts in xmms

[Ed Greshko]

On 02/07/15 12:24, Jim Lewis wrote:
>  Note: This is an extremely low priority item.
>
>  I first noticed this all the way back in Fedora 14. Here are the steps to
> reproduce:
>
> - Install xmms and its related files.
>
> - Run it and open the pulldown menu. The fonts will look fine. Close xmms.
>
> - Now install gnuchess/xboard   (yum -y install gnuchess xboard)
>
> - (This step may be optional) Play a game.
>
> - Run xmms again and open the menu. The fonts are now little boxes.
>
>
>    Is this a bug or have I been doing something wrong all this time? I
> realize that xmms is from Fusion, is that the problem? I can fix it by
> running "yum -y install xorg-x11-font*". I really did not expect this
> issue to still be around after all this time. Note that I tried to find
> some info on the net about this first but didn't come across anything
> relevant.

You may want to be a bit more specific on the packages you've installed from rpmfusion.

xmms itself is part of the fedora repo. 

So, just installing xmms, gnuchess and xboard results in the following getting installed.

Feb 07 14:58:35 Installed: 1:glib-1.2.10-43.fc21.x86_64
Feb 07 14:58:38 Installed: 1:gtk+-1.2.10-79.fc21.x86_64
Feb 07 14:58:38 Installed: libmikmod-3.3.7-1.fc21.x86_64
Feb 07 14:58:38 Installed: 1:xmms-libs-1.2.11-22.20071117cvs.fc21.x86_64
Feb 07 14:58:39 Installed: libIDL-0.8.14-9.fc21.x86_64
Feb 07 14:58:39 Installed: ORBit2-2.14.19-13.fc21.x86_64
Feb 07 14:58:40 Installed: libbonobo-2.32.1-8.fc21.x86_64
Feb 07 14:58:41 Installed: at-spi-1.32.0-14.fc21.x86_64
Feb 07 14:58:41 Installed: 1:xmms-1.2.11-22.20071117cvs.fc21.x86_64
Feb 07 15:00:49 Installed: ruby-libs-2.1.5-26.fc21.x86_64
Feb 07 15:00:49 Installed: ruby-irb-2.1.5-26.fc21.noarch
Feb 07 15:00:49 Installed: rubygem-psych-2.0.5-26.fc21.x86_64
Feb 07 15:00:49 Installed: rubygem-json-1.8.1-26.fc21.x86_64
Feb 07 15:00:49 Installed: rubygem-bigdecimal-1.2.4-26.fc21.x86_64
Feb 07 15:00:50 Installed: rubygem-io-console-0.4.2-26.fc21.x86_64
Feb 07 15:00:50 Installed: rubygems-2.2.2-101.fc21.noarch
Feb 07 15:00:50 Installed: rubygem-rdoc-4.1.1-2.fc21.noarch
Feb 07 15:00:50 Installed: rubypick-1.1.1-2.fc21.noarch
Feb 07 15:00:50 Installed: ruby-2.1.5-26.fc21.x86_64
Feb 07 15:00:51 Installed: gnuchess-6.2.1-1.fc21.x86_64
Feb 07 15:00:52 Installed: xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-7.5-14.fc21.noarch
Feb 07 15:00:58 Installed: xboard-4.7.3-3.fc21.x86_64

And the problem you've described is not reproducible.


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