4 Mar 2009 00:18
Missing Font Glyphs
Tom Browder <tom.browder <at> gmail.com>
2009-03-03 23:18:44 GMT
2009-03-03 23:18:44 GMT
I've successfuly built and use Gnumeric 1.9.4 on an x86 running Fedora 7. I have attempted to do the same thing on an x86_64 running Centos 5.2, but the glyphs don;t show and I get the following messages upon startup: I've searched this list's archives and found no help. I've done a general google search and get lots of hits where the same problem is mentioned, but I've found only one response and that was to copy fonts from one host to another which seems like a last-resort fix. I think I may be missing some prerequisite but nothing is apparent to me. I built several packages as prerequisites for Gnumeric: libgsf-1.14.11 goffice-0.7.3 glib-2.19.8 gtk+-2.15.4 pango-1.23.0 cairo-1.8.6 pixman-0.14.0 tiff-3.8.2 plus gnumeric-1.9.4 itself, but ./configure didn't report anything missing that seemed related to fonts. Any ideas? Thanks.(Continue reading)
1) The optimal situation is that one would not have to go through the
silly "enable accessibility" process. Instead, it would be ideal if
accessibility were enabled by default. We ain't there yet, though, so
one has to go through this awkward process.
2) Orca has a feature that allows you to set it up to start
automatically on login. This is available as the "Start Orca when you
login" checkbox in the preferences GUI, and we've recently added a
"Automatically start orca when you log in?" question to the text based
setup. We keep the autostart off by default, however, because people
have reported issues with how accessibility has been integrated into
some operating system distributions.
Hope this helps,
Will
Janina Sajka wrote:
> Hi Will and All:
>
> Let me ask this here before I take this issue to the Fedora Live CD
> list, where I'm also subscribed ...
>
> Booting the Fedora Live CD, one can launch orca from an Alt+F2 dialog,
> but this is the orca setup that requires gnome restart. My experience
> with it is that it talks as one would expect--if it talks, a question of
> audio driver support, I suppose.
>
> However, after gnome restarts, the user must again issue Alt+F2 and
> restart orca by hand. My experience is that, if the setup process works,
> one can successfully run the Fedora Live image with orca. But it seems
> unfortunate to have to reissue the Alt+F2 command. Shouldn't orca simply
> start on gnome restart? Is this a Fedora bug? Or a GNOME bug?
>
> I'm particularly interested as SpeakupModified.Org is looking at
> enhancing the Fedora Live image expressly for Orca mediated Fedora
> installations.
>
> Janina
>
> Willie Walker writes:
>> Hi Chad:
>>
>> You might need to press "Return" to make the logout happen. It sounds
>> like what might be happening is that a logout dialog is appearing and
>> it's inaccessible because accessibility has not been enabled for the
>> desktop to happen. Pressing "Return" should activate the "OK" button of
>> this dialog.
>>
>> When all else fails, you can give the desktop the 3 finger salute:
>> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. This will kill the X server and take you back to
>> the login screen.
>>
>> Will
>>
>> Shaun McCance wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 07:05 -0500, chad wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi i'm totally blind and i tried the fedora 10 live cd but having
>>>> problems.
>>>> I set up orca and it said accessability for gnome has just been
>>>> enabled you need to log out and log in for the change to take effect.
>>>> I pressed y for yes and i'm stuck can't log back in.
>>>> Where does it bring you and is the password linux on the live cd?
>>>>
>>> Hi Chad,
>>>
>>> You'll probably have better luck asking on gnome-accessibility-list.
>>> I've CC'd that list with your question.
>>>
>>> Accessibility folks, please CC Chad on responses.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Shaun
>>>
>>>
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