Steam Tahoma Font

Gelush · Post by **Gelush** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:02 am

I've installed wine 0.9.59 and Steam. I've copied the Tahoma.ttf font to windows/fonts directory and I still can't see the writing in Steam. What should I do?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:42 am

Gelush wrote:I've installed wine 0.9.59 and Steam. I've copied the Tahoma.ttf font to windows/fonts directory and I still can't see the writing in Steam. What should I do?

What locale are you using (what language)? Have you tried moving ~/.wine directory aside (mv ~/.wine ~/.wine-old) and installing steam again?

Paul Johnson · Post by **Paul Johnson** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:01 pm

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I've installed wine 0.9.59 and Steam. I've copied the Tahoma.ttf font to
windows/fonts directory and I still can't see the writing in Steam. What
should I do?

I believe the font should be installed wherever your X server keeps your fonts
or in ~/.fonts

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wispa · Post by **wispa** » Sun May 04, 2008 4:45 am

How have you installed Wine? Did you compile it from the source?

I have the same issue when I compile Wine myself, the Tahoma font is in the Windows/fonts directory yet the text in Steam is not displayed.

However, if I uninstall Wine from the source and re-install using APT (I'm using Debian) and re-run Steam, all the text is visible and all is well.

The only downside to this is not being able to use the most up-to-date release of Wine until the packages have been distributed for Debian.

If anyone has any suggestions as to why this is, pleas elet me know.

...Am I missing something in building the source? I just use the ./tools/wineinstall process

Thanks

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Sun May 04, 2008 4:51 am

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 4:45 AM, wispa <[email protected]> wrote:

How have you installed Wine? Did you compile it from the source?

I have the same issue when I compile Wine myself, the Tahoma font is in the Windows/fonts directory yet the text in Steam is not displayed.

However, if I uninstall Wine from the source and re-install using APT (I'm using Debian) and re-run Steam, all the text is visible and all is well.

The only downside to this is not being able to use the most up-to-date release of Wine until the packages have been distributed for Debian.

If anyone has any suggestions as to why this is, pleas elet me know.

...Am I missing something in building the source? I just use the ./tools/wineinstall process

Thanks

Run ./configure --verbose and resolve any missing dependencies. What
version of fontforge do you have?

wispa · Post by **wispa** » Sun May 04, 2008 7:13 am

I've managed to sort it out, I went through the 'WineOn64bit' Wiki pages and the Debian section again and seemed to have missed this bit:

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sudo apt-get build-dep wine

It's all working as it should now.

Paul Johnson · Post by **Paul Johnson** » Sun May 04, 2008 2:10 pm

On Sunday 04 May 2008 02:45:04 am wispa wrote:

How have you installed Wine? Did you compile it from the source?

I have the same issue when I compile Wine myself, the Tahoma font is in the
Windows/fonts directory yet the text in Steam is not displayed.

However, if I uninstall Wine from the source and re-install using APT (I'm
using Debian) and re-run Steam, all the text is visible and all is well.

The only downside to this is not being able to use the most up-to-date
release of Wine until the packages have been distributed for Debian.

If anyone has any suggestions as to why this is, pleas elet me know.

...Am I missing something in building the source? I just use the
./tools/wineinstall process

Thanks

Because X doesn't work like Windows for fonts. Your X server needs to know
about the fonts, if it knows the fonts, 9 times out of 10, X will
automatically do the right thing if put in a situation it has to guess.
About the only time you won't see text displayed in X is if 1) You don't have
the font, and 2) X doesn't have any guess what a suitable replacement would
be.

That being said, I go from the wine packages in sid (which for me seem to work
better), and I keep fonts that aren't from any packages I installed in
~/.fonts, which is one of the places X looks for additional fonts. My
~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts directory is empty. Steam works fine.

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