[Westwales] Somewhat newbie-ish Java SDK question

[Jonathan West]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, John Beisley wrote:

> I think I had a similar problem once, I think what I did was:
> 
> fiddle with the font.properties file (which is under your java main driectory somewhere (do a 'find /path/to/java -name font.properties' :)
> 
> find the offending line in the file which will contain:
> "-*-standard symbols l-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific"
> 
> Then run xfontsel to find a font that x windows does have installed with a similar definition (using * instead of %d of course)
> 
Yep... that's what I had to do,I just commented out the line I 
didn't run the xfontsel bit, 
maybe that's why I can't get java to work properly.
I think there was about half a dozen such lines .
Off now to run xfontsel and see if I can get java to work 100%
Cheers
Jon

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