Re: XFCE4 No Longer Displaying 3rd-Party Fonts.

From: Janky Jay, III <jankyj_at_unfs.us>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 22:43:47 UTC
Hi Andrew,

On 7/13/21 6:42 PM, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-07-13 at 16:50 -0600, Janky Jay, III wrote:
>>> Maybe related to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/386
>>> pango 1.42.4 -> 1.48.4 happened on 2021-05-24 which is now on
>>> /quarterly.
>> Holy cow! With bitmap fonts being unsupported in the 1.44 and later
>> releases of pango, that'll surely cause what I'm seeing. Being as I
>> just bumped my pkg repository to use /latest instead of /quarterly
>> last week and seeing this, a bigger question now is, how many people
>> this is going to effect now that this update has hit /quarterly?
>> That's a huge bummer but thank you very much for the info!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Janky Jay, III
> I'm using pango-1.48.4_1  with about forty ported font families and no
> problems on a 12.2-STABLE GENERIC amd64 workstation.
    It seems a lot of people are using the latest Pango without any
issues (on multiple different OSes, too.) It is still a mystery so I'll
keep poking around.

Regards,
Janky Jay, III