Not the first to blame

Posted by Holger Schauer in Linux
Wednesday, April 12. 2006

Yesterday, I ranted about Cincoms inability to fix an apparent incompatibility of VisualWorks with Xorg on Ubuntu. Today, it looks like it's not Cincom fault, but a user-overfriendlyness by
Gnome. I can use VisualWorks on Xorg with e.g. WindowMaker without any problem. Gnome (2.8, at least, as shipped with Ubuntu) generates an empty fonts.dir file in ~/.gnome2/share/fonts which seems like a very pointless idea. It also breaks other applications besides VisualWorks. I will have to wait for Dapper to arrive to see whether Gnome 2.10 fixes the issue.

The other possibilty, of course, would be to drop Gnome (and that Metacity) again. Seems we won't become friends.

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