On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:28:53 -0500 Andrew Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just tried turning ON anti-aliasing in the Gnome font preferences > dialogue, and the problem went away. But... err... I hate using > anti-aliased fonts in my UI... ! Where should I look to try to get > non-anti-aliased fonts to work again? > > El mié, 12-07-2006 a las 00:00 -0500, Andrew Green escribió: > > > Help! I just upgraded my Sid box, and all of a sudden all of my > > gtk-based apps, including the Nautilus-run desktop, are behaving all > > wonky. Basically in menus and widgets of all kinds, including text > > areas, most text is invisible after the first space of any line. > > Then when the control is highlighted, or when I select text in a > > text area, the missing text is suddenly visible again. This does > > not happen with OpenOffice, nor with KDE apps, nor with gtk apps > > running on a different machine and forwarded over to the X server > > on this machine. It _does_ happen with Firefox. I have no idea > > where to start looking for the problem. Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > Andrew I have a similar problem, except that 1. I run Etch, not Sid 2. GTK apps run locally behave fine, but those run with X forwarding over an ssh connection behave as you describe. I haven't identified the cause of the problem, but my money is on the recent libcairo2 upgrade. -- Liam
