Problems with X font handling

[Stephen Gallagher]

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Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Lots of X programs (xemacs, xlogo, xfig) complain of missing fonts (and end
> up using some cheesy default font). I reported this originally against
> xemacs (at 478999), and now changed it to xorg-x11 as I believe this is a
> better match. xfontsel has only 4 fonts to exhibit now in all. This is
> probably due to the ongoing font handling overhaul in rawhide.
> 
> In any case, could somebody knowledgeable on this point me (OK, make that
> "handhold me") in the direction to fix this?

I opened a similar bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476531

It was fixed by adding xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi and
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi to the "Requires:" list of the package
(in my case DDD).

I don't know the history on it, but I suspect that one or the other of
these two packages was once a part of the core Xorg packages and was
later broken out. Individual packages relying on these fonts were not
updated to be aware of the change.
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Stephen Gallagher
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