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Old 10-27-2010, 11:28 AM   #1
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i have an issue with wine fonts on fedora 12


I use wine 1.2 on fedora 12 and besides the fact that i have to wait about 2 minutes for a wine app to start it also has this issue with the fonts. All the letters are empty squares like it can't find a font to use. I don't think this is a matter of missing fonts cause i installed all the fonts i could in 'add/remove software' and tahoma and corefonts with winetricks and still have the issue. I have posted a screenshot in attachments.
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Old 10-27-2010, 01:17 PM   #2
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Have you run winetricks?
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

it's a script. Do chmod +x on it and run winetricks --help. winetricks corefonts might get you started.
 
Old 10-27-2010, 01:40 PM   #3
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also 2 min to load something ??
-- a few questions --
1)
just HOW did you install wine ?
from the repos ?
Code:
yum install wine
-- or some other way
2)
what are your hardware specs
if this computer had windows 98 on it then a two min. time might be expected if you have only 128 meg of ram


also you do know that fedora 12 is about to hit "end of life" in just over 1 month ( 30 to 45 days)
at that point there will NO LONGER be any support for fedora 12
you must at that time install ,the then current, fedora 14
 
Old 10-27-2010, 03:12 PM   #4
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well i already installed winetricks corefonts and tahoma and the glitch persists.

yeah i installed it with yum but i added the packages in add/remove software also.

i have 2 gb ram and 1,73 intel dual processor.

yeah, i know i have to update and i will soon, just not now.
 
Old 10-27-2010, 04:44 PM   #5
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i will bet hat there are OLD rpms still installed and messing things up

also using yum to "upgrade" while skipping 1 or 2 distros almost NEVER will work . or not work right

to check run
-- for fedora 7
Code:
rpm -qa | grep fc7
- fedora 8
Code:
rpm -qa | grep fc8
it would be normal for fedora 12 to have about 6 fedora 11 rpms ( bot not ANY fedora 8 or 7 )
there should be NONE
 
Old 10-28-2010, 03:50 AM   #6
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None for fedora 7, none for fedora 8.
I installed and reinstalled wine several times. it worked in the previous version and i kept it out of date but now it updated itself so i didn't bother downgrading it. in the previous version it had no issue with the fonts but i would like to make this version work.
 
Old 10-29-2010, 02:40 AM   #7
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Ignoring the rpms issue, there is a trick that gets all the fonts
winetricks allfonts? I just don't remember. Some of these things can't be in rpms, iirc because of copyright restrictions.
 
Old 10-29-2010, 05:45 AM   #8
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i did
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 sh winetricks allfonts
and still have the issue. and still takes two minutes to load anything.
 
Old 10-30-2010, 12:38 PM   #9
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i upgraded my fc12 to fc13 and the problem with the fonts is gone. Now it still takes 2 minutes or more to load something. please help
 
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