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    Gnome-Font-Viewer won't start from the menu bar, which means I can't browse fonts at all. I really need it to use it though

    I can't figure out what's wrong. I've tried typing the following into a terminal (immediately after clicking "font viewer" from the gnome menu)
    Code:
    ps -aujz | grep -i font
    .. and I find nothing.

    I found this "Karmic Koala Testing" thread with the same thing, closed and unsolved:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1256400

    I tried running font-viewer manually, like so:
    Code:
    $ gnome-font-viewer /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
    The above ^ way works, but that's the only way I can get it to launch, which really defeats the purpose, because I can't browse around through fonts.

    I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 with all the latest upgrades (just checked again now), here's uname -a:
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    Linux mybook 2.6.31-19-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 01:26:53 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
    Any suggestions? Any one experiencing this?

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    Re: Gnome Font Viewer

    What happens when you issue
    Code:
    gnome-font-viewer
    without any arguments?

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    Re: Gnome Font Viewer

    Code:
    $ gnome-font-viewer
    usage: gnome-font-viewer fontfile
    There's no man page or --help parameter. Is this an application that I'm not supposed to be using via GUI? .. Is this application supposed to be the back bone to a "font-browser"-type front end? If so, that'd be ridiculous, because its practically already a finished product -- I just need a scroll bar on the left so I can click on other fonts and watch the preview change.

    I tried searching google with queries like "site:gnome.org/projects font-viewer" but I'm not finding anything, I feel like there's gotta be an explanation somewhere, of what this app is for.

    This project is my only hope right now: but there's no deb, only an RPM -- and the source isn't compiling for me: http://gfontview.sourceforge.net/
    When I run ./configure I get a ton of "checking..." output, as I'd expect from such a script, and then:
    Code:
    configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables.
    see my attached output of:
    Code:
    $ gnome-font-viewer /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
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    Last edited by jzacsh; February 13th, 2010 at 07:41 AM.

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    Re: Gnome Font Viewer

    Quote Originally Posted by jken146 View Post
    What happens when you issue
    Code:
    gnome-font-viewer
    without any arguments?
    What does it do when you run the above?

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    Re: Gnome Font Viewer

    fontmatrix looks like a possibility

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    Re: Gnome Font Viewer

    Quote Originally Posted by jken146 View Post
    Thank you for finding this! I can't imagine how much googling/hair-pulling I'd do without forums like this.

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    Re: Gnome Font Viewer

    There is an old ubuntu package for gfontview http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/gfontview

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    Re: Gnome Font Viewer

    Quote Originally Posted by jken146 View Post
    There is an old ubuntu package for gfontview http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/gfontview
    awesome, hopefully the next person will find everything piled up here in one thread.

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    Re: Gnome Font Viewer

    xfontsel is the tried and true solution.

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