Nedit with Mandriva 2008

Scott Tringali scott.tringali at totalviewtech.com
Fri Nov 2 17:27:18 CET 2007


Eric Bouyoux wrote:

> How can I get them ?

Sorry, I don't have Mandriva, so I don't know.


> nedit -xrm '*fontList: \
> -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'

That's asking for a 120-pixel font (pretty big!), which doesn't work for 
me either.  Try that with "12" instead of 120...

> And I get :
> 
> UTF8 locale not supported.
> Cannot convert string
> "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
> Cannot convert string
> "-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
> Cannot convert string
> "-*-helvetica-medium-o-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
> Cannot convert string
> "-*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
> Cannot convert string "-*-courier-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
> to type FontStruct
> Cannot convert string
> "-*-courier-medium-o-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

That's strange - the error message does not match you typed at all. 
It's almost like it was ignored.

Does this work at all: nedit -xrm '*fontList: fixed'


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