[mythtv-users] Missing fonts

R. G. Newbury newbury at mandamus.org
Sun Feb 3 00:02:35 UTC 2013


On 02/01/2013 05:59 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 01/02/13 22:25, SCOTTSIMPSON1240 wrote:
>>
>> CentOS 6.3, ATrpms
>>
>> I keep getting messages like
>>
>> 2013-02-01 14:18:20.341350 E MythFontProperties: Failed to load
>> 'Thorndale',
>> got 'DejaVu Sans' instead Location:
>> /usr/share/mythtv/themes/MythCenter/base.xml @ 1081 Name: 'medium' Type:
>> 'fontdef'
>>
>> What package am I missing to correct this? Thanks.
>>
> We all get those. It seems that the people who create the various themes
> somehow
> think that, despite the fact mythtv runs on Linux, that we all have Windows
> fonts installed.
>
> The message just means that the font mechanism found a suitable substitute.
>

If seeing that error message in your logs irritates you beyond measure, 
then do a search and replace on the base,xml file, replacing all 
'Thorndale' references with 'DejaVu Sans'. Since that's what *is* being 
found, there will be no error.

Geoff


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