I have ROOT 6.24 and I have compiled it from source on void linux. I am having this weird font on my histograms. Even if I try to change, it stays the same. I have deleted everything and recompile a couple of times. Does anyone have any idea, why is it so? I also tried to tweak using .rootrc but nothing changed.
I have a similar installation on the same platform on another system where everything is fine.
May be you have a rootlogon.C file setting this font. Try to start root with the option -n.
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Thanks for the reply. Nothing changes with the -n option.
The folder $ROOTSYS/fonts should be:
% ls $ROOTSYS/fonts
BlackChancery.ttf FreeSansOblique.otf STIXGeneralItalic.otf STIXSiz5Sym.otf courbd.ttf symbol.ttf verdana.ttf
DroidSansFallback.ttf FreeSerif.otf STIXSiz1Sym.otf arial.ttf courbi.ttf times.ttf verdanab.ttf
FreeMono.otf FreeSerifBold.otf STIXSiz1SymBol.otf arialbd.ttf couri.ttf timesbd.ttf verdanai.ttf
FreeMonoBold.otf FreeSerifBoldItalic.otf STIXSiz2Sym.otf arialbi.ttf georgia.ttf timesbi.ttf verdanaz.ttf
FreeMonoBoldOblique.otf FreeSerifItalic.otf STIXSiz2SymBol.otf ariali.ttf georgiab.ttf timesi.ttf webdings.ttf
FreeMonoOblique.otf LICENSE STIXSiz3Sym.otf ariblk.ttf georgiai.ttf trebuc.ttf wingding.ttf
FreeSans.otf STIXGeneral.otf STIXSiz3SymBol.otf comic.ttf georgiaz.ttf trebucbd.ttf
FreeSansBold.otf STIXGeneralBol.otf STIXSiz4Sym.otf comicbd.ttf impact.ttf trebucbi.ttf
FreeSansBoldOblique.otf STIXGeneralBolIta.otf STIXSiz4SymBol.otf cour.ttf monotype.ttf trebucit.ttf
Yes, but what about $ROOTSYS/fonts ? this is where ROOT looks for fonts.
echo $ROOTSYS outputs nothing, but that maybe because I dont source any shell script to load root. I have it in my /usr/bin/. But even when I export $ROOTSYS to /usr/share/root and ls $ROOTSYS will give the fonts I attached in the screenshot above, nothing changes.
I fixed the problem though thanks to the comment above with all the font name. I copied all the font from /usr/share/root/fonts on my other machine to this one. Everything works fine. Thank you so much
It should be defined. You should source the script thisroot.sh in the bin folder where root is.
okay. i sourced the script thisroot.fish but echo $ROOTSYS still doesn’t output anything. Should I manually define it and what directory should it point to?
That’s weird.
you did that:
cd bin-folder-where-root-is
soucre thisroot.sh
echo $ROOTSYS
?
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it is indeed but that is because ROOT is not installed in a single directory. That is because I did “sudo make install” after “make”. Things are scattered in the /usr directory. Thats why I dont source the .sh file because everything works without doing it.
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