On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Arun Persaud
<address@hidden> wrote:
On 10/02/2011 08:18 AM, h.g. muller wrote:
> I guess this bug-report will keep recurring forever...
>
> Install the font!
>
> And make sure it is loaded in the X-server font cache.
>
> This is the only solution. There is no way XBoard could possibly work
> if you have no fonts: all the menus and dialogs would be blank.
> So printing this error message is the only logical solution.
Since this seems to be a common problem, how about adding a more verbose
error message, e.g. "Possible solution: change font to a know font in
xboard.conf or install missing font (needs update of X-server font
cache). BTW: This is not a bug :)"
Arun