[rox-users] font issues: ROX-{Filer,Session}

[Keith R. J. W. <kr...@op...>]

... version 1.3.4 and 0.1.17, respectively.  The problem here is that
from time to time, I log into my Linux box via some remote X server
speaking XDMCP (whether it be another linux box, or things like xwin32),
and unfortunately not all X servers I may be using have access to the
fonts I like to use in my ROX setup.  For example, I might log into my
linux box -- with has a ROX-* setup configured to use 'Arial Black 12'
TrueType fonts -- via some shady X server that doesn't have access to
said fonts (either not installed locally or no access to a font server).
So I proceed to get flooded with error messages of the form:

  Couldn't load font "Arial Black 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

both in ROX-Session's error log and in ~/.xsession-errors .  Hrrm.  The
last experiment generated ~2000 lines in ~/.xsession-errors in a matter
of 30 seconds.

I could play shell-script tricks to redirect stderr to /dev/null, but
this is ugly.  Or I could use a font that I'm sure is installed
worldwide, but this is ugly too.  So, who's generating this font error
message?  gtk+?  ROX-*?  (heh. rox-star. lol)  And is there an alternate
facility (perhaps gtk+ trick?) for shutting it up, other than the two
ugly methods already mentioned?

Thanks,
krjw.