183749 - Mozilla 1.2.1 (Xft) does not enumerate all of the system fonts in Red Hat 8.0

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Kerry Sanders]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202

Previous builds used to enumarate all fonts on the system, but now with build
1.2.1 (Xft) I no longer see any of the Nimbus fonts.  The only fonts I see are
Luxi Sans, Luxi Serif, Luxi Mono, Bitstream Charter, and a couple of courier fonts.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Previous Xft builds, or non-Xft builds?  Are the fonts you mentioned truetype fonts?

Comment 2

[Kerry Sanders]

By previous builds, I was referring to previous Xft builds properly enumerated
the list of fonts from Red Hat.  I do not believe the fonts in question are
truetype fonts.  They are installed with Red Hat 8.0 when I installed it fresh
on a new machine.  Actually, I have never installed any truetype fonts on my
linux box, so I would surmise that they are not truetype.

Comment 3

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

The Nimbus fonts do show up on my pretty stock RH 8.0 system.  What does fc-list
on the command line show you?  That should enumerate all of the fonts.

Comment 4

[Kerry Sanders]

Below is the list that fc-list shows, but this is not all the fonts that show in
all apps like Konqueror and others.  Also, I do not understand what changed
between 1.2 and 1.2.1, because with the releases of 1.2b (xft) and 1.2 (xft) I
had a much different font list from what I have now showing in the release of
1.2.1 (xft).  The fonts in question (Nimbus), by the way are from the ZZ_Abiword
family according to xfontsel.


fc-list shows the following:

Luxi Serif:style=Regular
Utopia:style=Bold Italic
ZYSong18030:style=regular
Luxi Serif:style=Bold
AR PL SungtiL GB:style=Regular
Kochi Mincho:style=Regular
Luxi Mono:style=Bold
Utopia:style=Bold
Bitstream Charter:style=Bold Italic
Luxi Sans:style=Bold
Courier:style=Bold Italic
Luxi Sans:style=Regular
Courier:style=Regular
AR PL KaitiM GB:style=Regular
Cursor:style=Regular
Bitstream Charter:style=Regular
Kochi Gothic:style=Regular
Baekmuk Batang:style=Regular
Courier 10 Pitch:style=Bold Italic
Luxi Mono:style=Regular
Bitstream Charter:style=Italic
AR PL KaitiM Big5:style=Regular
Courier 10 Pitch:style=Italic
Utopia:style=Italic
LucidaTypewriter:style=Regular
LucidaTypewriter:style=Bold
Luxi Serif:style=Oblique
Luxi Serif:style=Bold Oblique
Luxi Mono:style=Oblique
Courier 10 Pitch:style=Regular
Luxi Sans:style=Oblique
Baekmuk Headline:style=Regular
Fangsong ti:style=Regular
Courier:style=Italic
AR PL Mingti2L Big5:style=Reguler
Baekmuk Dotum:style=Regular
Courier 10 Pitch:style=Bold
Luxi Sans:style=Bold Oblique
Luxi Mono:style=Bold Oblique
Courier:style=Bold
Utopia:style=Regular
Bitstream Charter:style=Bold
Baekmuk Gulim:style=Regular

Comment 5

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

If you're using xft you can essentially ignore the output from xfontsel since
that will only show you the output of the old core fonts infastructure.

Comment 6

[Kerry Sanders]

This bug turns out to be an issue with font caching on the system in question
that it was found on.  Once I ran fc-cache and reloaded the font server, all of
the fonts that were not showing reappeared and are now displayed in Mozilla.

Comment 7

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Marking invalid based on reporter comments.