Couldn't find a decent font, aborting

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   On many installations, and even when running just wcmd, I'm getting
this error message:

[mark@Godzilla mark]$ wcmd
err:wineconsole:WINECON_Fatal Couldn't find a decent font, aborting

[mark@Godzilla mark]$ wine --version
Wine 20021219
[mark@Godzilla mark]$

I've quickly searched through the Devel and User archives, and searched
using Google, but found just about nothing on the subject. The only
suggestion was to run in 640x480 desktop mode, which I tried but it
didn't help at all. Tony has been very helpful at Wine-User but we
haven't discovered the solution.

Wine is running Quicken, Winzip and WS_FTP just fine. I've tried WinAmp3
which comes up but does not generate sound at all. I'm using the new
Jack drivers for Wine, so I wasn't expecting perfection in that area
just yet, but hope to work with Chris Morgan to make that more solid. I
have lots of Windows audio apps to try out.

My machine is RH 7.3, running Alsa and Jack for sound and doing high-end
audio stuff. It's up to date with new RPMs, but is a sort of
minimalistic machine in terms of non-audio apps. Wine is from CVS
yesterday. I'm running a no Windows installation. I'm currently running
KDE 3.0.X.

Can you folks recommend how I go about fixing this? What fonts are
required to be installed to make Wine happy? How do I give you good
feedback if I can't run the debugger? This morning I've done:

make uninstall
make clean
make

but chose to not overwrite my current registry file.

Let me know if you need more information.

I appreciate your help in advance.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Cheers,
Mark

[Eric Pouech]

> I've quickly searched through the Devel and User archives, and searched
> using Google, but found just about nothing on the subject.

wineconsole looks for a fixed size font which will fit the 80x25 console 
on the screen. it doesn't seem to find one.
a possible workaround is to install more fixed size TTF fonts
A+

[Mark Knecht]

Eric,
   Thanks for the response. I'm just back from Christmas travels and
trying to get caught up.

As an experiment I took an older Redhat 7.0 machine and loaded the
newest CVS on it. That machine ran wcmd just fine. However, on this RH
7.3 machine it does not. To me this is a problem to have a major
distribution not run this part of Wine. Disappointing.

Can you suggest a good site for getting more info on Linux fonts? I
am no Linux guru and really just try to have it be a tool. I'm not a
software guy.

Thanks,
Mark

On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 08:27, Eric Pouech wrote:
> > I've quickly searched through the Devel and User archives, and searched
> > using Google, but found just about nothing on the subject.
>
> wineconsole looks for a fixed size font which will fit the 80x25 console 
> on the screen. it doesn't seem to find one.
> a possible workaround is to install more fixed size TTF fonts
> A+
> -- 
> Eric Pouech