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Re: wish(Tk) crashes without fontconfig, but fontconfig is not installed as a dependency
- From: Arjen Markus <arjen dot markus895 at gmail dot com>
- To: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 18:22:04 +0200
- Subject: Re: wish(Tk) crashes without fontconfig, but fontconfig is not installed as a dependency
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I have very recently had the same problem with pango - the library
complained that it could not match any fonts. After installing
fontconfig it all worked.
Regards,
Arjen
2013/8/24 nu774 <honeycomb77@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> Without fontconfig, wish(Tk) seems to crash on the attempt to create
> widgets (which requires some fonts to render text) like the following:
>
> $ DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 wish
> % label .l -text "foo" <--- crash
>
> It seems that libfontconfig is already installed;
> but is there any reason not to install fontconfig package as a
> dependency of Tk?
>
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