Hi,
when I use ncview under Plasma wayland, I get this error:
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Error: Aborting: no font found
I tried to install xorg-fonts-misc as suggested in the aur (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ncview) but it didn’t fix anything even after a reboot. When I use the X11 Plasma DE everything works, but I would like to be able to use ncview with wayland as well.
Any ideas how to fix this?
My ncview was working on arch linux and using xwayland fine for about two months. Today I updated my system and am now getting the same error. I already had xorg-fonts-misc installed. Have you found any other solution? This is specifically the error I get,
Warning: Cannot convert string “--lucida-bold-r---14-------” to type FontStruct
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Error: Aborting: no font found
No I didn’t find a solution unfortunately, I switched to X11 because of this.
This isn’t a proper fix but to avoid the program aborting I believe having any ISO8859 font available will work. In my case, I got the same error as dbuhl8 with the lucida-bold conversion but without the “Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font” line as it managed to find a font. The problem is that the font it found seems to be some gothic font I happened to have and it made the program barely legible…
There seems to be a fix now: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ncview
I was finally able to solve it by setting:
Ncview*font: fixedin
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Ncview. The font can be any of those listed by thexlsfontscommand.
