Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:09:24 +0530 From: Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com> To: Karol Kwiatkowski <karol.kwiat@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: skype with garbled characters Message-ID: <20070923033924.GA5309@lakshmi.susmita.org> In-Reply-To: <46F552E6.5080604@gmail.com> References: <20070920112854.GA22899@lakshmi.susmita.org> <46F552E6.5080604@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 07:37:42PM +0200, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I am not able to use skype with FreeBSD 6.2. > > > > It installs fine after a CVSup of the ports tree. > > > > But whenever I try to run it, I get a screen like this. > > > > http://koushikn.fastmail.fm/skype.png > > > > All my efforts at resolving failed. > > Hello Girish, > > I've had similar problem[1] some time ago and it was solved since then. > Anyway, can you check your fonts.conf file? It should output something > like this: > > % $ grep dir /usr/compat/linux/etc/fonts/fonts.conf > % <!-- Font directory list --> > % <dir>/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts</dir> > % <dir>~/.fonts</dir> > > In my case fonts are located in /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts. What about > your setup? > > If that's the problem recompiling x11-fonts/linux-fontconfig should take > care of it. > Dear Karol, I got it working! Many thanks! The issue was this. # cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/xorg-fonts # make install I had missed this step. This installed fonts under /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts I guess the default dependency tree for skype does not include this. I wonder how to submit a patch for this. I have always enjoyed using skype under FreeBSD much more than linux. :) That way I don't have to use linux. :) Thanks once again. regards, Girish
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