Hi guys, I've been also suffering this, and been workarounding it by keeping libcairo2 to 1.0.4... until today.
Seems like the problem only happens to people running GTK+ apps under KDE (don't know about Christopher J Peikert, but the rest, we do). Today I discovered this piece of advice, that did the trick for me: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2006/07/msg00040.html I have no idea why running GTK+ from within KDE makes them influenced by ~/.qt/qtrc. Cheers, * Branden Robinson [Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:54:06 -0400]: > Rendering of text seems to be damaged beyond usability in the latest > version of Firefox. > http://redwald.deadbeast.net/tmp/firefox-horked.png * Christopher Martin [Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:53:04 -0400]: > I can confirm this. At least some other apps seem to be affected - Adobe > Reader, for instance. > Setting MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO to 1 fixes Firefox. And turning on > anti-aliasing (by using the KDE Control Centre which edits > $HOME/.fonts.conf) also makes the problem go away for all affected > apps. > I also noticed another 'fix' for all affected apps - revert libcairo2 to > the version in testing, 1.0.4-2. The recent cairo upload might explain > why the symptoms only popped up a few days ago. * Christopher J Peikert [Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:41:30 -0400]: > I get nearly the exact same behavior on my x86 system. > The behavior is quite unpredictable -- some pages do not cause it. Other > times, I can scroll to the bottom of the page, then scroll up and see all > the missing text. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Ella Baila Sola - Besos de hielo
