Re: fallback fonts? remote display - xlib

[Fred Kiefer]

> Am 16.06.2020 um 18:54 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it>:
> 
> I launch an app on my Raspberry with xlib and remote display.
> 
> 2020-06-16 10:40:33.831 ProjectCenter[29598:29598] No font cache available - 
> building new one - this may take several seconds (or minutes on a slow 
> machine with lots of fonts)
> 2020-06-16 10:40:33.834 ProjectCenter[29598:29598] Running 
> /GNUstep/System/Tools/font_cacher
> 2020-06-16 10:42:03.487 ProjectCenter[29598:29598] XGFont: selected font: 
> Helvetica at 12.000000 ((null)) is not available.
> 2020-06-16 10:42:03.488 ProjectCenter[29598:29598] The font specified for 
> NSFont, Helvetica, can't be found.
> 2020-06-16 10:42:03.488 ProjectCenter[29598:29598] XGFont: selected font: 
> Helvetica at 12.000000 ((null)) is not available.
> 2020-06-16 10:42:03.489 ProjectCenter[29598:29598] XGFont: selected font: 
> Helvetica at 12.000000 ((null)) is not available.
> 2020-06-16 10:42:03.489 ProjectCenter[29598:29598] XGFont: selected font: 
> Helvetica at 12.000000 ((null)) is not available.
> 2020-06-16 10:42:03.490 ProjectCenter[29598:29598] XGFont: selected font: 
> Courier at 12.000000 ((null)) is not available.
> 2020-06-16 10:42:03.491 ProjectCenter[29598:29598] XGFont: selected font: 
> Fixed at 12.000000 ((null)) is not available.
> 
> <<...>>
> 
> 2020-06-16 10:42:04.267 ProjectCenter[29598:29598] NSFont.m:1513 Assertion 
> failed in GSCInlineString(instance), method initWithCoder:. Couldn't find a 
> valid font when decoding.
> 2020-06-16 10:42:04.270 ProjectCenter[29598:29598] Exception occurred while 
> loading model: NSFont.m:1513  Assertion failed in GSCInlineString(instance), 
> method initWithCoder:.  Couldn't find a valid font when decoding.
> 2020-06-16 10:42:04.272 ProjectCenter[29598:29598] Failed to load Gorm
> 
> <<...>>
> 
> 2020-06-16 10:42:04.342 ProjectCenter[29598:29598] XGFont: selected font: 
> Fixed at 12.000000 ((null)) is not available.
> Segmentation fault
> 
> now.. I wonder why? I launched "xfontsel" on the raspberry.
> Am I right to assume that the fonts seen there are the one availbale to the 
> backend too?
> 
> I see Helvetica, e.g.:
> 
> -*-helvetica-*-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> 
> -*-courier-*-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> 
> what am I missing?


Have a look into the font cache file to see which fonts are detected. maybe you 
should delete that file and have it recreated.
As you know the xlib backend is no longer supported especially not the XGFont 
class. You should check, why no better font support is found.