[wplug] yahoo im fonts in gnome resolved

[TC Linux]

Lance Tost wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, TC Linux wrote:
> 
>>2. gnome seems to have an issue with displaying fonts in yahoo IM  but 
>>it runs just fine in kde (likely not related to RH)
>>
> 
> 
> This happened to me in RH8.. I forget what the fix was... maybe grab the 
> latest Yahoo IM client... OR, you could just use gaim which is what I do.  
> It talks to Yahoo IM, AIM, ms messenger, irc, etc... and no font problems.
> 
> Actually... thinking back... and looking at my /usr/bin/ymessenger... I 
> commented out LD_LIBRARY_PATH=... so maybe that was the fix.  Try that.
> 


Lance,


Commenting out that LD_LIBRARY_PATH line wasn't exactly the fix that 
worked in my case, but it did give me a good place to start and after a 
google search on 'ymessenger fonts gnome' the first hit....

http://freshmeat.net/projects/ymessenger/?topic_id=20

suggested a fix that took care of the problem.

Thanks a ton!  Don't get me wrong here, but sometimes the best help, is 
the help that doesn't initially solve the problem but only points you in 
the right direction to find the solution.  And I suppose that in the 
linux world this seems very true since some people's setups vary 
differently and what fixes one thing may not always fix another.

After I finish this email though, I'm going to setup and try out gaim, I 
dig one client that handles multiple chat protocols, beats tieing up 
system resources.  On windows I used Trillian to handle that so it looks 
like gaim will be its linux 'equivalent'.

Thanks
Craig

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