[PLUG] AbiWord won't start

Steve Beattie steve at wirex.net
Wed Sep 18 22:19:57 UTC 2002


On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:31:03AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   I know folks here are running abiword, so perhaps you'll offer a pointer
> or two. I can't get past the error boxes telling me that abiword cannot find
> its fonts. According to the FAQ on the abiword web site, that can be turned
> off in the program. Except that I cannot invoke the program to turn off this
> message.

What version of abiword are you using? I discovered in upgrading from
1.0.1 to 1.0.2 that if abiword couldn't get the fonts in
/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/ from the X server, it absolutely refused to
start up in the manner you describe.  

>   The next one says that I need to use the abiword wrapper rather than
> invoking it directly. So, where's the wrapper? I find nothing that looks
> like a wapper.

The message I saw claimed that this *might* be the reason why abiword
couldn't find its fonts. In my case, it was something else -- I wasn't
allowing xfs to read /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/. As such, I believe the
warning about not running the wrapper is a red herring.

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