[users] No text/fonts in wine apps

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, w.arkwolf wrote:

> I'm sure that I've done something wrong but I don't know what it could be so I 
> thought I'd ask here. I have googled with no useful results.
> 
> I have a new installation of Centos5 running on an Acer 5050 laptop with 1Gb 
> ram. This is an AMD Turion 64 processor and the kernel version is 
> 2.6.18-8.1.1.el5. I added the RpmForge repository following the instruction 
> on the Centos site and then installed wine.i386 0.0.9.35-1.el5.rf. This 
> brought in a number of dependencies and the installation succeeded. My 
> problem is that when I run any windows app (Wine File, Wine Configuration, 
> Notepad) the programs run but no text is displayed in the windows at all. All 
> of the icons and window decorations are present, just no text. The display is 
> set to 1280x800 resolution normally, but I have checked at 1024x768 and I see 
> the same thing. I can supply any other information which might be of use.
> 
> So, have I missed something simple? I will say that this is the second time I 
> have done this installation assuming that I missed something basic the first 
> time, but I have reproduced the results exactly as before, so it is time to 
> ask for assistance.

We have had a similar report. Is it possible you don't have some 
font-package installed that wine apparently needs ?

I have a clean CentOS 5 system and I don't have the problem. I didn't add 
any fonts myself.

If I do an rpm -qa \*font\*, these are the likely suspects:

	bitmap-fonts-0.3-5.1.1
	bitstream-vera-fonts-1.10-7
	dejavu-lgc-fonts-2.10-1
	ghostscript-fonts-5.50-13.1.1
	mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.0.rf
	tetex-fonts-3.0-32.fc6
	urw-fonts-2.3-6.1.1
	xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
	xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
	xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
	xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.1-2.1.el5
	xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.1-2.1.el5
	xorg-x11-fonts-base-7.1-2.1.el5
	xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.1-2.1.el5
	xorg-x11-fonts-truetype-7.1-2.1.el5

Could you see what you are missing, and install one by one and test again. 
Maybe that fixes it and we can improve the package.

Kind regards,
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