March 2002 - Wine-Devel - list.winehq.org

linking problem - can't find sane
by Andriy Palamarchuk March 27, 2002

March 27, 2002

Today I refreshed wine from CVS. The previous version was from the last week CVS. I tried to build and got a linking problem: gcc -shared -Wl,-Bsymbolic twain_32.spec.o capability.o ds_audio.o ds_ctrl.o ds_image.o dsm_ctrl.o twain32_main.o -o twain_32.dll.so -L../../dlls -L../../library -lwine -lsane -ldl -lnsl -ljpeg -lm -lm /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsane collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [twain_32.dll.so] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/buf/prj/wine/dlls/twain' make[1]: *** [twain/twain_32.dll.so] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/buf/prj/wine/dlls' make: *** [dlls] Error 2 I actually have the library installed: $ locate sane.so /usr/lib/libsane.so.1 /usr/lib/libsane.so.1.0.3 My environment - RedHat 7.1 with applied bugfixes and updates. Installed sane packages: $ rpm -q -a | grep sane sane-1.0.3-10.1 xsane-0.82-3.1 Note, config can't find sane.h. It does not exist on my system. Relevant except from config.log: configure:6535: checking for sane-config configure:6550: found /usr/bin/sane-config configure:6559: result: sane-config configure:6577: checking for sane/sane.h configure:6587: gcc -E -I/usr/include conftest.c configure:6584:23: sane/sane.h: No such file or directory configure:6593: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: #line 6583 "configure" #include "confdefs.h" #include <sane/sane.h> configure:6612: result: no ... ac_cv_header_sane_sane_h=no ... ac_cv_prog_sane_devel=sane-config ... Andriy Palamarchuk __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/

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fixme:bitblt:MaskBlt errors
by Lonnie Cumberland March 27, 2002

March 27, 2002

Hello All, I am running a program that I have compiled with wxWindows, but when I run the application it comes up with one of the graphic images (background image) displayed, but then the other 3 images do not show up and I see an error message in my xterm: fixme:bitblt:MaskBlt (2144,50,50,53,61,2376,0,0,2256,0,0,-1429471200): stub fixme:bitblt:MaskBlt (2144,100,100,44,63,2380,0,0,2284,0,0,-1429471200): stub fixme:bitblt:MaskBlt (2144,150,150,53,53,2384,0,0,2312,0,0,-1429471200): stub I am using the latest release of wine, but not the CVS version. Has this been fixed yet or is someone working on it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Lonnie -- Lonnie Cumberland OutStep Technologies Incorporated EMAIL: Lonnie(a)OutStep.com : Lonnie_Cumberland(a)yahoo.com The Basis Express Virtual Office & Data Backup and Recovery Services URL: http://www.basis-express.com "The Virtual Office without boundaries!!!"

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Announcing CrossOver Office - official support for Microsoft Office and Lotus Notes
by Jeremy White March 27, 2002

March 27, 2002

Hi everyone, I thought I'd let you guys know that today we have launched version 1.0 of our next product, which we are calling 'CrossOver Office'. Basically, we've tuned Wine so that it installs and runs Office and Notes very nicely, and we're selling that in a nice bundle. Since it's LGPL, the Wine code to do that will be coming back to Wine shortly. Please give us a bit of time; we're going to be overwhelmed here shortly, and I'd like to make sure that as the code comes into Wine, each developer gets proper credit for their work. I did want to extend an offer to everyone here, though. I'll cheerfully send any wine hacker a copy of both of our products for free (heck, we couldn't have done this without your help; taking your money wouldn't be right). Just email thanks(a)codeweavers.com and we'll send download instructions to wine hackers whose email we recognize. Finally, I wanted to dedicate this release to Aric Stewart, who has through some unfortunate circumstances not been credited for all of his hard work on Wine. Thanks, Aric - you made this possible. This is it, everyone. I think Wine is really ready to rock and roll this year. Yeeha! Cheers, Jer

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Re: fixme:bitblt:MaskBlt errors
by Lonnie Cumberland March 27, 2002

March 27, 2002

Hello All, I am going to be implementing this Maskblt function on my current version of Wine but have a general question about where it should go. I did a grep on the sources and found out where the "FIXME (bitblt::Maskblt....)" is located. Would the general solution proceedure for adding the routine be to simply replace the FIXME.... stuff with my routine? Cheers, Lonnie -- Lonnie Cumberland OutStep Technologies Incorporated EMAIL: Lonnie(a)OutStep.com : Lonnie_Cumberland(a)yahoo.com The Basis Express Virtual Office & Data Backup and Recovery Services URL: http://www.basis-express.com "The Virtual Office without boundaries!!!"

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Windows LNK file format
by Lonnie Cumberland March 27, 2002

March 27, 2002

Hello All, I am working with wine and want to develop a simple application that will read the Win85/98/2000 LNK files that are used to hold the application data for the desktop icons and url. does anyone have any information on these files, or has anyone done any work with some code to read/write these files? Cheers, Lonnie -- Lonnie Cumberland OutStep Technologies Incorporated EMAIL: Lonnie(a)OutStep.com : Lonnie_Cumberland(a)yahoo.com The Basis Express Virtual Office & Data Backup and Recovery Services URL: http://www.basis-express.com "The Virtual Office without boundaries!!!"

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wineserver not terminating
by Lonnie Cumberland March 27, 2002

March 27, 2002

Hello All, I have recently noticed that after starting up a wine instance, that upon closing the appliction sometimes the wine instance is still a running process and I have to kill it manually. I am running the latest version of wine as well. Any ideas as to what is going on here and how this can be fixed. Cheers, Lonnie -- Lonnie Cumberland OutStep Technologies Incorporated EMAIL: Lonnie(a)OutStep.com : Lonnie_Cumberland(a)yahoo.com The Basis Express Virtual Office & Data Backup and Recovery Services URL: http://www.basis-express.com "The Virtual Office without boundaries!!!"

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Re: ntfs filesystem
by Lonnie Cumberland March 27, 2002

March 27, 2002

Hello Dante, I must be confused. I know about the different types of filesystems that can be made and mounted on the Linux VFS, but doesn't Wine allow you to specify in the ./wine/wine.conf the filesystem type? In Windows NT for example, the user can assign permissions in a similar way that Linux allows. the same is true for Windows 2000 and I suspect for Windows XP as well. So this is really related to wine and how it interacts with the psuedo filesystem. Is this correct? Cheers, Lonnie > Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > >>Hello Again All, >> >>I just had another thought and was wondering if someone was >>working on the NTFS filesystem for Wine? >> >>I am guessing that this is what is being used in the Windows2000 >>and Windows XP as well, right? >> > I believe at least in 2k, you had an option, > but this is a moot point since filesystem layer code is outside > the realm of wine .. > this is done by the host operating system. > There is a ntfs fs project for linux : > http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ > > --Dante -- Lonnie Cumberland OutStep Technologies Incorporated EMAIL: Lonnie(a)OutStep.com : Lonnie_Cumberland(a)yahoo.com The Basis Express Virtual Office & Data Backup and Recovery Services URL: http://www.basis-express.com "The Virtual Office without boundaries!!!"

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Re: Hack/work-around for cursor problem on sparc-solaris
by Warren_Baird＠cimmetry.com March 26, 2002

March 26, 2002

> I don't think there are places where LoadCursor can legitimately > fail. Besides, since your SetDefaultCursor is not an exported API it > could only be used inside user32.dll, where LoadCursor will definitely > never fail (modulo bugs of course). Ok - I'll just leave my hack in locally then. Warren

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Re: Hack/work-around for cursor problem on sparc-solaris
by Warren_Baird＠cimmetry.com March 26, 2002

March 26, 2002

> I don't see how you can do that, SetCursor doesn't call LoadCursor. > And LoadCursor on system cursors is not supposed to fail so there is > no need to handle that case; if it fails it's a bug that should be > fixed. That's true, but the paradigm SetCursor(LoadCursorA(...)); happens in a lot of places... What I'm suggesting is replacing them with something like: HCURSOR cursor = LoadCursorA(...); if (cursor) { SetCursor(cursor); } else { SetDefaultCursor(); } As I said, if you don't think this will ever happen in 'real life', I'm happy to leave my hack in place locally until I get the cursor thing sorted out correctly... But if there are any legitimate cases where LoadCursorA might fail, this would probably give a better result... Warren

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Re: OT: Buggy fonts
by Duane Clark March 26, 2002

March 26, 2002

Huw D M Davies wrote: > A much better way to do font rendering in Wine is to use the new > client side rendering code. For this you need an XServer capable of > supporting the RENDER extension (xdpyinfo will tell you whether you > have such a beast) and a copy of the FreeType library version at least > 2.0.5 (but the later the better). Add a [FontDirs] section to your > ~/.wine/config file, with entries pointing at any directories that > contain TT fonts... This got me to try out the client side rendering. It really does make the fonts (in MS Word in particular) not suck! Nice job. Guess I will stick with this configuration. I came across two issues. The first is that virtually all dialogs and some windows were being drawn too narrow. The window/dialog height was normal. Looking at traces with and without the client side rendering, I saw this difference: Server rendering: trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32 DIALOG 0, 0, 287, 165, 0 trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32 STYLE 0x80c820c0 trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32 EXSTYLE 0x00000000 trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32 CAPTION L"Open" trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32 FONT 8, L"helv", 0, FALSE trace:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance L"System", h=16, it=0, weight=400, PandF=22, charset=0 orient 0 escapement 0 ... trace:font:XFONT_GetAvgCharWidth retuning 6 trace:font:XFONT_RealizeFont physfont 3 trace:font:GetTextMetricsW text metrics: Weight = 400 FirstChar = 0 AveCharWidth = 6 Client rendering: trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32 DIALOG 0, 0, 287, 165, 0 trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32 STYLE 0x80c820c0 trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32 EXSTYLE 0x00000000 trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32 CAPTION L"Open" trace:dialog:DIALOG_ParseTemplate32 FONT 8, L"helv", 0, FALSE ... trace:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance L"helv", h=-10, it=0, weight=0, PandF=00, charset=1 orient 0 escapement 0 ... trace:font:WineEngGetTextMetrics OS/2 winA = 1854 winD = 434 typoA = 1491 typoD = -431 typoLG = 307 FT_Face a = 1854, d = -434, h = 2355: HORZ a = 1854, d = -434 lg = 67 maxY = 2124 minY = -665 trace:font:WineEngGetTextMetrics xAvgCharWidth 904 x_scale 20480 tmAvgCharWidth 4 trace:font:GetTextMetricsW text metrics: Weight = 400 FirstChar = 32 AveCharWidth = 4 Suspecting the average char width, but not understanding the code that generates it, I cheated. In WineEngGetTextMetrics(), I added: if (ptm->tmAveCharWidth == 4) ptm->tmAveCharWidth = 6; And this fixes all the dialogs and windows for me. The other problem I ran across is shown in these pictures, showing server and client side rendering. My little hack above had no effect on this particular problem. http://www.leewardfpga.com/server.png http://www.leewardfpga.com/client.png As can be seen, the vertical text is getting chopped off slightly. The font with the problem is Tahoma, and this is with a ~/.wine/config that contains [fonts] "Resolution" = "96" "Default" = "-adobe-times-" "DefaultFixed" = "fixed" "DefaultSerif" = "-monotype-times new roman-" "DefaultSansSerif" = "-microsoft-tahoma-"

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Re: Hack/work-around for cursor problem on sparc-solaris
by Warren_Baird＠cimmetry.com March 26, 2002

March 26, 2002

Alexandre Julliard wrote: > No; you can actually set a NULL cursor to hide the cursor. This is > also used by ShowCursor(). Ok... Do you agree that we should handle the 'failed to load cursor resources' problem in a better way that just drawing no cursor? If not, I'll just leave my change in locally until I get the cursor loading fixed on solaris. Once I get the problem fixed it may not be a big deal... If so - how do you suggest we address it? One possibility would be add a new function named something like 'X11DRV_SetDefaultCursor' and have SetCursor call it when LoadCursor fails... Anyone have a better idea? Warren

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pthreads patch
by Chris Morgan March 26, 2002

March 26, 2002

After adding some printfs I discovered that jack was locking up at a call to pthread_create. Jack also uses plenty of other pthreads functions so I tried to implement as many as possible. Just wanted to run this patch by people before submitting to wine-patches. scheduler/pthread.c, thread.c, server/thread.c, request.h, include/winbase.h, include/wine/server_protocol.h, dlls/kernel/kernel32.spec Chris Morgan <cmorgan(a)alum.wpi.edu> Implement OpenThread(). Implement a few pthreads functions. Patch is X11 as Ove helped out.

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Re: Conversion of HACMOBJ to void* (bug #478)
by Eric Pouech March 26, 2002

March 26, 2002

Vincent Béron a écrit : > > I had to transform acmMetrics16 to a atub (was dubbed "semi-stub") > because of an impossibility to convert a HACMOBJ16 (16bit offset > pointer, without segment info) to a HACMOBJ (32bit linear pointer): a > pointer less or equal than 0x0000ffff would certainly not access the > right memory area. two points: 1/ a handle can have any value... it's up to the DLL to decide what value it really is (pointer, index into an internal array, key to look up in a set...). in msacm case, since 16bit handles are not implemented yet, you cannot really tell 2/ you can leave the semi-stub as it is, mainly when the handle is NULL (which is in lots of cases for acmMetrics). However, since no 16 bit handle can be created, acmMetrics16 will only be called with NULL handles, since the semi-stub so, I'd propose to let acmMetrics16 call acmMetrics only if hao is 0 A+

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socket question
by michael cardenas March 25, 2002

March 25, 2002

I'd like to throw this out there for anyone more familiar with sockets in wine than I am. Here's some of the output of running aol with --debugmsg +winsock: trace:winsock:WS_socket af=2 type=1 protocol=0 trace:winsock:WS_socket created 0320 trace:winsock:WS_bind socket 0320, ptr 0x40595b7c, length 16 trace:winsock:WSAAsyncSelect 0320, hWnd 006f, uMsg 00000468, event 00000033 trace:winsock:WSAEventSelect 00000320, hEvent 00000328, event 01000033 trace:winsock:WS_connect socket 0320, ptr 0x40595b50, length 16 trace:winsock:WINSOCK_DoAsyncEvent socket 00000320, event 00000328 trace:winsock:WINSOCK_DoAsyncEvent post: event bit 4, error 10061 trace:winsock:WINSOCK_DoAsyncEvent socket 00000320, event 00000328 trace:winsock:WINSOCK_DoAsyncEvent post: event bit 5, error 0 trace:winsock:WSAAsyncSelect 0320, hWnd 006f, uMsg 00000468, event 00000000 trace:winsock:WSAEventSelect 00000320, hEvent 00000000, event 00000000 trace:winsock:WINSOCK_DoAsyncEvent socket 00000320, event 00000328 trace:winsock:WINSOCK_DoAsyncEvent orphaned event, self-destructing this seems to happen over and over again. My application sets up it's socket to send it a window message when the event happens, but the event takes too long and so the app turns off the notification, and the event becomes orphaned.

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Re: debugging longman dictionary
by Laurent Pinchart March 25, 2002

March 25, 2002

I looked at the trace log you attached to your email, and recognised (unfortunately) familiar copy protection output :-( Is anyone working on implementing what would be needed to successfuly run copy-protected softwares ? I ran into the same problems when I tried to play The Longuest Journey with Wine. I disassembled a large part of the code and rewrote it in C to try to understand what was going on. If anyone is interested I can send my work by e-mail (I won't send it to the list as the files are quite big). Basically, the copy protection scheme I studied used the following technique. One of the sections in the PE file is encrypted. The decryption key is generated from the content of the other sections. The process of decrypting the encrypted section tried to detect if a debugger is running, and fails to run properly if so. This results in the inability to decrypt the PE file if the unencrypted section is modified or if a debugger is running. There must be some code to detect if the application CD is genuine but I've never been able to go past the decryption part. To detect if a debugger is running, the following actions are performed (in no particular order): - the code tries to open some files using CreateFileA : "\\.\SICE", "\\.\SIWVID" and "\\.\NTICE". This fails as the SoftICE VxDs are not loaded, so no problems there - it also tries to read/write to the debug registers. this produces an unhandled exception. should be trivial to write an exception handler to support that (right ?) - the code writes binary code to the interrupt vector table (at address 0 - division by 0 handler), and then cause to the division by 0 interrupt handler to be called by dividing a value by 0. - the TIB (Thread Information Block, which address is located at fs:0) is read. The following C code illustrates the technique (which I don't understand :-) bool detect_debugger_from_TIB { char *pTIB; asm ( "mov %%fs:0x18, %", "=g"(pTIB) ); if ( pTIB[0x20] == 0 ) return FALSE; else return TRUE; } - another debugger detection technique uses int 0x68, functino 0x4300. If the content of eax when returning from int 0x68 is not 0x4300, a debugger is present. This is not performed on some NEC Japanese systems, which probably use int 0x68 for another purpose. - the last attempt to detect a debugger uses int 0x01 (enter SMM/ICE mode), which checks if an external hardware emulator is connected to the processor. I haven't been able to understand what the code is supposed to do. There might be some other anti-debugging techniques, I gave up after 2 weeks of disassembly :-) Hope these observations will help someone. Laurent Pinchart

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ntfs filesystem
by Lonnie Cumberland March 25, 2002

March 25, 2002

Hello Again All, I just had another thought and was wondering if someone was working on the NTFS filesystem for Wine? I am guessing that this is what is being used in the Windows2000 and Windows XP as well, right? cheers, Lonnie -- Lonnie Cumberland OutStep Technologies Incorporated EMAIL: Lonnie(a)OutStep.com : Lonnie_Cumberland(a)yahoo.com The Basis Express Virtual Office & Data Backup and Recovery Services URL: http://www.basis-express.com "The Virtual Office without boundaries!!!"

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similar WIne projects for MAC?
by Lonnie Cumberland March 25, 2002

March 25, 2002

Hello All, I am really starting to get involved with the wine project and am trying get up to speed so that I can start to implement some of the FIXME functions as soon as possible. I was just wondering if there was also an type of Wine project that would allow MAC to run on Linux as well, but not in the respect of having to load the MAC os like VMware? Cheers, Lonnie -- Lonnie Cumberland OutStep Technologies Incorporated EMAIL: Lonnie(a)OutStep.com : Lonnie_Cumberland(a)yahoo.com The Basis Express Virtual Office & Data Backup and Recovery Services URL: http://www.basis-express.com "The Virtual Office without boundaries!!!"

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Hack/work-around for cursor problem on sparc-solaris
by Warren_Baird＠cimmetry.com March 25, 2002

March 25, 2002

Hi all, I've managed to come up with a work-around for the cursor problem on sparc-solaris. What I'm not sure about is whether this should be checked in as a general fix. The problem was that if X11DRV_GetCursor (dlls/x11drv/mouse.c) is called with a NULL CURSORICONINFO pointer, it would explicitly create a completely empty cursor... This doesn't seem like the right thing to do to me - it seems to me much better to create a default cursor from the provided X11 cursor font, and use it. The question is, does anyone rely on this behaviour? From what I've seen of the code, this only happens if there is a problem loading the windows cursors, in which case it would be much more sensible to show a default cursor than no cursor at all. If someone is relying on this to create an empty cursor, it might be better for them to explictly create a CURSORICONINFO that creates an empty cursor. What do people think - should I submit this as a patch? Warren

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Duplicated functions?
by Warren_Baird＠cimmetry.com March 25, 2002

March 25, 2002

Hi all, I've been digging around trying to track down my cursor issues, and I noticed that there seem to be 3 identical implementation of the function find_entry_by_id implemented in dlls/user/exticon.c, dlls/version/resource.c, and loader/pe_resource.c. Is this intentional? It seems like the danger for the the functions to get out of sync is quite high (especially since there aren't sufficient comments indicating that other versions need to be updated). If it isn't intentional, I'll open a bug about it (I don't really have time to fix it right now), otherwise I'll add a couple of lines of documentation indicating that there are multiple versions that need to be updated to each of the functions comments. Warren

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pthreads issues?
by Chris Morgan March 25, 2002

March 25, 2002

I've been working on a wine driver for the jack audio server, jackit.sourceforge.net. The concept of the server is to open audio ports and setup a callback function that will be called whenever the server needs more audio data. Everything works fine until the point of starting up the client and starting the calls to the callback function. With the latest cvs version of the jack server and some changes to the driver I haven't been able to get the driver to start the client up successfully, it just hangs after the below first two pthreads errors although I suspect this may be due to the same issues as before. Previously only about 50% of the time would the client be started up correctly, the other half of the time it would report failure to connect to the server and I would have to kill wine and restart a few times before it finally would work. I got errors like below: ~/c/Program Files/winamp$ wine Winamp.exe FIXME:pthread_cond_init FIXME:pthread_cond_signal FIXME:pthread_cond_wait fixme:ntdll:RtlNtStatusToDosError no mapping for 00000102 It appears that something went wrong between wine and wineserver communication and that strange 102 got stuck in there. I've also had strange X errors and another person reported: "I'm having problems getting jack to work with a GTK+ app. 3 times out of 4 when I start I get: engine has shut down socket; thread exiting Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x102)!" Any ideas? Thanks, Chris

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Cursor issues on sparc-solaris
by Warren_Baird＠cimmetry.com March 25, 2002

March 25, 2002

Hi all, I alluded to this in a post on Friday, but I'm going to ask about it explicitly now. In the sparc-solaris port, most bitmaps are now showing up fine (with a few fixes in wrc), but when the mouse enters a wine window the mouse cursor disappears. The mouse still works if you can figure out where to click it. I've been tracing through the code, trying to figure out what is going wrong. with a breakpoint in LoadCursorA, I've stepped down through the resource loading code, until I get to PE_FindResourceW. It calls find_entry_by_nameW, which calls find_entry_by_id. The inputs seem fine, but the resource id (0xC) doesn't show up in the IMAGE_RESOURCE_DIRECTORY, which has only 3 entries, with ids 4, 5 and 6... I'm afraid I'm at a bit of a loss so far. My instincts say that the id is fine, and that something is breaking during the loading of the image resource directory - I'm trying to trace back where the image resource directory is populated, but I haven't found it yet... Any suggestions would be distinctly welcome... I'm hoping to get a linux box set up here today, and maybe tracing through the same process under linux will indicate the problem. Thanks! Warren

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Re: Introduction and Sparc Solaris Status
by Warren_Baird＠cimmetry.com March 25, 2002

March 25, 2002

> On Sparc processor? you mean you're emulating all the other layers too? like > processor, ram, video etc? isn't it kinda ... slow? Note that I said "winelib", and not "wine". Winelib only allows you to *recompile* win32 apps on *nix platforms. So I can take win32 source code, and compile and run it on solaris, hence no emulation is required... > Have you managed to run something a bit more complicated then notepad? again - > I (and I'm sure others) will be happy to hear about this stuff... Not yet. I've built the winemine, notepad and clock sample programs so far... My intent is to try to get the cursor issue fixed, and then worry about porting the rest of our code... Warren

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OT: Buggy fonts
by Russell Howe March 25, 2002

March 25, 2002

I'm afraid this is a little off-topic, but every time Wine starts, as it builds the font metrics, xfs-xtt (the font server) dies. I'm assuming there's a font (or few) in the system which it doesn't like, or which are corrupt. It makes wine rather annoying to use (and means that if I kill wine and restart the font server, it thinks the metrics are already done and ignores most of my fonts!) Does anyone know an easy way to find out which fonts they are? -- Russell Howe rhowe(a)wiss.co.uk

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BiDi support
by Shachar March 25, 2002

March 25, 2002

Hi all, I am new to the mailing list. I am interested in helping out with BiDirectional (Hebrew and Arabic) support. Is anyone currently working on it? Are there any leads? I am quite willing to get a from scratch go at it, but I don't want to fork the effort. Shachar

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Re:OT: Buggy fonts
by Eric Pouech March 25, 2002

March 25, 2002

answer 1/ try to find the font that crashes and remove it answer 2/ try to upgrade to a newer freetype library. resistance to bad font files has been improved A+ > I'm afraid this is a little off-topic, but every time Wine starts, as it > builds the font metrics, xfs-xtt (the font server) dies. I'm assuming > there's a font (or few) in the system which it doesn't like, or which > are corrupt. > > It makes wine rather annoying to use (and means that if I kill wine and > restart the font server, it thinks the metrics are already done and > ignores most of my fonts!) > > Does anyone know an easy way to find out which fonts they are? > > -- > Russell Howe > rhowe(a)wiss.co.uk > > --------------- Eric Pouech (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eric.pouech/) The future will be better tomorrow, Vice President Dan Quayle ____________________________________________________________ Faites un voeu et puis Voila ! www.voila.fr Avec Voila Mail, consultez vos e-mails sur votre mobile Wap.

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