Exception: Font not found.

[daemoon]

I just downloaded and compiled Glest 3.0 for my Debian GNU/Linux. After this I wanted to start the game (./glest), but it only said "Exception: Font not found.". Now I looked in the file named "glest.ini", and saw that "verdana" is necassary for playing Glest. I installed the package "msttcorefonts" included in the Debian repositories and tried starting the game again, but it just put the same error message again...
Can anyone tell me, how to solve my problem?

[martiño]

It looks like you are using the wrong glest.ini, you should be using the linux one included in the source package.

[daemoon]

Hmm I replaced the old one by the one in the package glest data. Now I just copied the old one to it's place and tried to start the game again.

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void Shared::Platform::Window::setStyle(Shared::Platform::WindowStyle) not implemented.
Exception: Font not found.

What shall I do now?

[martiño]

you need the linux one, it is in the source package, not in the data one

[daemoon]

Yes I copied the one from the source package on the place, where it must be, as I wanted to say with "Now I just copied the old one to it's place and tried to start the game again. "

[martiño]

You might still not have the required font, just replace the font in glest.ini by one that your system supports.

[hailstone]

I agree, other people had the same problem and fixed it by changing the font in glest.ini

[daemoon]

Oh you're right. I set the font to Arial, which I installed before, and now it works. Thank you!

[matheos]

i've got that problem to!! distro is linuxmint 4 ...based on ubuntu 7.10

i've try to change it for FreeMono ... but i got a segmentation fault when i've tried to run it... now i've set it for FreeSans and it's working well.... tanks guys...

maybe coders are better to change the default font!!

have a good one guys!!

[MatzeB]

should be fixed in svn r121. (You can also simply change your glest.ini to use -*-*-*-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* as font instead of -*-utopia-*-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*)

[weedkiller]

Does anybody know which types of fonts glest can use under linux?
It seems to me that i cannot choose the truetype(orwhatevertheyare) fonts which i can choose in openoffice.
I found a couple of fonts which all work and which are basics of linux as it seems.
http://http://andrew.triumf.ca/fonts/fonts.html
They are descriped as bitmapped fonts; so does glest only support bitmapfonts?

The issue why i ask; there is a problem using the greek.lng translationfile under Linux. It was written for windows and so the special font which it requires to display the text (in uft-8? don't know) is not availible on linux.

So, i think we need searching a bitmapfont which supports utf-8 or at least greek letters?

Another way could be to use symbol, but then we need to write a new translationfile