Re: Remote wine app - PPC garbled fonts
Re: Remote wine app - PPC garbled fonts
- Subject: Re: Remote wine app - PPC garbled fonts
- From: "Ambrose Li" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:17:37 -0500
Actually I think this sounds like an endianness bug somewhere. It
doesn't sound like a font issue to me.
2008/11/25 Zach Drayer <email@hidden>:
> Ack, missed the linux part. sorry about that..
>
> Since some programs work fine, its most likely that you've got a font in the
> Intel mac that the PPC mac doesn't have - check ~/Library/Fonts and
> /Library/Fonts on both.
>
> On Nov 25, 2008, at 3:43 PM, Jonathan Markevich wrote:
>
>> Please note I'm running Wine on my [Intel] Linux box, and the only thing
>> I'm running on G4 is X11. The app's display is forwarded over a SSH tunnel.
>>
>> Would there be a font difference between my two Leopard X11 installs?
>>
>> On 25-Nov-08, at 4:36 PM, Zach Drayer wrote:
>>
>>> Wine doesn't really support PPC. It's intel-only.
>>>
>>> Though you're probably missing a few fonts or fontconfig/freetype.
>>>
>>> -Zach
>>>
>>> On Nov 25, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Jonathan Markevich wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, I'm struggling with an odd situation. I have 2 macs, 1 Intel iMac,
>>>> and 1 G4 eMac, both updated to 10.5.5. I am trying to run a Windows app on
>>>> the G4, and I was hoping to tunnel to a Linux box and run it in Wine there,
>>>> and simply display it remotely.
>>>>
>>>> ...but the fonts don't show up at all on the G4; instead a few garbled
>>>> "characters" (the odd black speckle here and there). It works perfectly on
>>>> the Intel Mac with the same user's login.
>>>>
>>>> I am using "winefile" to to work this out. It also shows up in winecfg.
>>>>
>>>> I tried the latest XQuartz on the G4 but no difference. Some other apps
>>>> (for example, vlc) show up the fonts fine. I did the "scorched earth"
>>>> uninstall/reinstall and no change.
>>>>
>>>> The only other difference is that the iMac has Crossover installed (but
>>>> not running).
>>>>
>>>> Any pointers on how to debug this? I can post a screenshot if you think
>>>> it will help.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>
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