Re: gEDA-user: gschem and pcb now working!! but...?

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 23, 2006, at 12:10 AM, David Froseth wrote:

> John,
> 	I did all of the rebuild and reinstall steps you suggested, plus  
> installing all of the pango programs I could see.
> 	I went ahead and created a .font.conf file in my home folder and  
> wrote "<dir>/System/Library/Fonts/<dir>" in it, without the ""  
> marks, pressed return, and then saved it.
> 	I then restarted my computer.  When I tried to boot pcb, I got the  
> message:

The closing tag should be </dir>

Apparently you don't need .fonts.conf, so I suggest just getting rid  
of it. You *shouldn't* need it unless you have private fonts, but I  
have had trouble with fink's fontconfig installation myself, and at  
least needed it in the past. Again the tangled web.

> Fontconfig error: "~/.fonts.conf", line 3: no element found
>
> After about a minute it loaded.  I tried gschem and again got the  
> message:
>
> Fontconfig error: "~/.fonts.conf", line 3: no element found
>
> 	Gschem loaded right away and now pcb loads right away.
> 	Thanks to your help (and Stuart's), I got both programs running  
> again, but I am obviously leaving something out of the .font.conf  
> file or it is in the wrong place.  Any suggestions?  Sorry, if I am  
> speaking "newbees."
>
> Dave

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
jpd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx