Try doing the following before running Smalltalk
xset fp rehash
Some Linux window managers, notably on Debian and Gentoo distributions, seem to mess up font paths. Although often in that case, the symptom is that it won't start at all, because the basic launcher/workspace/browser fonts aren't found.
At 01:28 AM 3/30/2006, stéphane ducasse wrote:
>Hi
>
>we had a lab on linux with vw7.3 and none of the Unit (TestRunner or
>RBSUnitExtensions) could work.
>We got all the time a primitive failed related to the fonts.
>Apparently some fonts were missing
>and the system was then not working.
>I guess that I could have play with the system to see if we could
>have changed the fonts but
>I could.
>
>Lot of students were not smalltalkers and this gave a not so good
>impression of course.
>I was wondering whether fonts substitution would not be possible in
>such a case: because
>bad looking working program is better than not working one.
>
>Stef
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