aterm locally fails to start [sgug-rse 0.0.7]

[mgtremaine]

Failure to find k14 font.

[sgugshell mgt@saiph ~]$ aterm
aterm: can't load font "k14"
aterm: can't load font "k14"
aterm: aborting

Font is included in xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.5-23.sgug.noarch
/usr/sgug/share/X11/fonts/misc/k14.pcf.gz

aterm can be started remotely via Forwarding without an issue from OS X and Linux. If anyone confirm or deny this issue that would be helpful.

-Mike

[danielhams]

Howdy doody!

Thank you for filing an issue.

Indeed I see the same behaviour as yourself when logging in directly on the host desktop - even with the xorg-x11-fonts-misc package installed. (Unfortunately a number of us DEVs work via remote X11, so sometimes these slip through the cracks).

I'm not entirely certain right now why it's not picking up the fonts correctly - a first look with par doesn't show it manually looking for fonts (so at a guess it's using fontconfig, or the X11 font server).

I did committ a change 0d8dcd3 to make aterm depend on the misc fonts package, and we leave this open to look a bit deeper why local aterm isn't picking up fonts from the sgug paths.

Kr, Hammy

[mzryz]

This is a strange issue, as after googling it I found people complaining about the missing 'k14' font from over 10 years ago in various distros and bsd's. Their solution was to load aterm with the -fn option and specifying the default font. I tried this and it didn't help.