ToME compiles but refuses to start on some Linux distros

[darkgod]

Ahahahahahah "logical" indeed ...

[Nerdanel]

It's kind of logical in that it's ordered, but it's also utterly opaque...

I made it so that the game first tries to load 9x15, then if that doesn't work, it tries to load the same thing by the lengthy string name, and if THAT doesn't work, it resorts to "fixed" which is supposed to exist on every X11 installation. Fixed is small though, so it isn't very good. And if there still is no font, the game exits with an error message instead of crashing mysteriously.

[Lord Estraven]

Nerdanel, can you post the patch? I'd like to incorporate it into my branch of T2.

BTW, does the GTK2 interface support XFT fonts?

(I really need to fix running in the GTK2 interface, but I haven't really a clue how...)

[Nerdanel]

Good thing I checked back here... eventually.

I don't have a patch as I also deleted dead code and stuff, but these snippets should be easy to apply:

The new font handling section of term_data_init in main-x11.c:

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	/* No environment variables, use default font */
	if (!font) font = DEFAULT_X11_FONT;

	/* Prepare the standard font */
	MAKE(td->fnt, infofnt);
	Infofnt_set(td->fnt);
	if (Infofnt_init_data(font))
	{
		if (Infofnt_init_data(DEFAULT_X11_FONT_FALLBACK))
		{
			if (Infofnt_init_data(DEFAULT_X11_FONT_FALLBACK2))
			{
				quit("Could not find a font");
			}
		}
	}

(The beginning of that is the same as in the old version.)

The new default font definitions in config.h:

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/*
 * OPTION: Default font (when using X11).
 * The first two are the same font under different names.
 * The "fixed" font should be found on any X11 system.
 */
#define DEFAULT_X11_FONT		"9x15"
#define DEFAULT_X11_FONT_FALLBACK	"-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1"
#define DEFAULT_X11_FONT_FALLBACK2	"fixed"

This bit replaces the old bit with the DEFAULT_X11_FONT.

The fix turned out to be pretty simple after all.

I don't know about GTK2 so I can't help you there.

[Lord Estraven]

Applied... Thank you very much.