Re: [ROOT] Font problems

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Tue May 23 2000 - 14:59:59 MEST


Hi Dan,

   it seems your X11 fonts are not properly installed or not accessable
via the fontserver. Check with your local sysadmin. The command xlsfonts
will list all available fonts.

Cheers, Fons.


Dan Schuette wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Running root under RedHat6.1 I get the following error on starting
> up root:
> 
> stacee5 > root
> Warning in <TGClient::GetFontByName>: couldn't retrieve font
> -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1, using "fixed"
> Warning in <TGClient::GetFontByName>: couldn't retrieve font
> -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1, using "fixed"
> Warning in <TGClient::GetFontByName>: couldn't retrieve font
> -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1, using "fixed"
> 
> Then when I plot a histogram (with default settings) I get:
> 
> Warning in <TAttText::Modify>: cannot find the right size font
> Warning in <TAttText::Modify>: cannot find the right size font
> (many times)
> 
> and the plotted histogram has over large text. Any ideas?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dan
> 
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