[Westwales] Somewhat newbie-ish Java SDK question

[Jon Pearse]

  Thanks, man.

  Of course, when I poked around in the font.properties folder, I
found a comment at the top to the effect that Linux may call
different fonts different names, and to replace all instances of
'standard symbols l' with 'symbols'. Which I did, and it worked.
It's amazing what happens when you actually do what the error
message says rather than thinking 'gah!' and giving up :)
  Although, please let it be known that I still don't like Java, but
at least it works.

  And good luck with the XP disk :)

-Jon

John Beisley said:
> 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)
>
> That's my quick and not very clear guide of how I might have solved
> it. I hope it helps. I'd say more but I'm trying to recover data
> from a mate's corrupted win xp NTFS partition ;)
>
> - John
>
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