Red Hat info needed

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I've got a problem that probably just needs education on my part.  I'm not
> that familiar with RedHat organization, so I'm asking for help there.
>
> I have two Sony Vaio laptops that are running RedHat distros and some home
> grown software (written in java) to perform tests on hardware accessed
> through ethernet connections.
> Laptop A: RH 6.3, kernel 2.2.16
> Laptop B: RH 7.1, kernel 2.4.3
>
> I've installed JDK 1.2 on both systems, from the same CD.
>
> However, when the same java program is run Laptop A can find the fonts, but
> Laptop B generates a slew of font errors (asking for a font that I am not
> using) and cannot find the specified font:
>
> font specified in font.properties not found [--zapf
> dingbats-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
>
> Can someone explain where RH hides all of the fonts so I can get the font
> directories identical?

There's no such thing as "the fonts".  Different apps use different types
of fonts in different ways.  I have no idea what Java uses, however if
we're talking about X fonts, then they should be somewhere under
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts

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