[ardour-dev] time/position/value helper missing

[Paul Davis]

>I have tried to work with 0.9beta19 and 2004.10.01 cvs-snapshot and noticed an
>absence of "helper popup info". My english is ugly, but I'll try to explane. I
>f
>I remember well, while selecting region or moving automation dot or moving 
>play/edit head or during some other operation, current-time/position/value inf
>o
>arised near mouse cursor in sync with mouse moving. Now I see nothing. After 
>ardour starting I see plenty of error messages - examples are below.
>
>The most significant update I remember is switching from xf86 to xorg.
>
>Has anybody some thoughts? Must I supply some additional info?
>
>Andrew 
>
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>Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation

apparently, the font used for the "verbose cursor" isn't available
with your X server configuration. alas, it is hard-coded into ardour
at present:

   "-*-lucida-medium-r-*-*-*-240-*-*-*-*-*-*"

if you make it available, things will work as expected. i believe.

--p