tag 220448 + moreinfo thanks On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:48:15PM -0500, Gregory Stark wrote: > Package: xserver-xfree86 > Version: 4.3.0-0pre1v3 > Severity: normal > > [First of all I had the same problem with the version of X in unstable. This > was one of the reasons I tried the experimental version] > > I have a problem that some fonts simply don't show up, instead I get blank > lines. But I can't figure out exactly what the pattern is. When I play with > xfontsel I cannot reproduce the problem. But the problem isn't just a > particular application, both Konqueror and Mozilla have precisely the same > behaviour, for example. > > I think the problem affects only the Adobe fonts, but some adobe fonts do show > up just fine (Symbol, Bookman, Century) while others show up as blank lines > (Courier) and others don't even show up in my font menus (whatever happened to > Times, Avant Garde, Zapf Dingbats?) > > The most common problem occurs with Courier, especially since it's the deafult > fixed width font for a lot of applications. It's driving me nuts on the > php.net > web site for example where the style sheet uses it for a lot of things. > > The weird thing is that courier and several other fonts show up in the > konqueror font menu (which uses the font itself for each choice) as blank. > Some > of the blank fonts work fine, others seem to display as blanks like Courier. > Not all of them are adobe fonts. > > Reading the other bug reports I thought it might be the same as the :unscaled > bug but I replaced the Files section of my Config with the set specified in > that bug report and the problem persists unchanged. The config I was using > previously is commented out. > > One thing that frightens me though -- the mouse pointer is still big, like the > big-cursor font in the commented out section. I don't understand how that > would > be. I C-A-BS'd the server to make sure it reread the config file. And I'm > pretty sure I'm editing the right config file.
I don't understand why you think any of the above are X server problems; they all sound like client-side issues to me. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Yeah, that's what Jesus would do. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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