On Friday, 25 March 2005 17:01, David Liontooth wrote: > Wesley J Landaker wrote: > >On Saturday, 19 March 2005 15:25, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > >>Hi folks, > >> > >>On my amd64 machine, I'm having issues where for certain > >>applications, fonts and/or pixmaps will randomly disappear. > >> > >>Has anyone heard of this before? > > > >I guess I am the only one seeing this problem... > It doesn't sound like anyone else is encountering this in a general > way. You could give us some details if you want suggestions -- which > apps, which fonts and pixmaps? Well, my first message had a lot of details. ;) I'd be happy to provide more if it would help it get fixed. Below is the relevent "more info": Quoting myself: On Saturday, 19 March 2005 15:25, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > Hi folks, > > On my amd64 machine, I'm having issues where for certain > applications, fonts and/or pixmaps will randomly disappear. > > Has anyone heard of this before? > > Here is some more info: > > * This is really noticable with firefox. After loading a web page, > or when the window looses focus, and under other hard-to-describe > conditions, text will often disappear. Links, which have underlines, > keep the underlines, but the actual font glyphs disappear. To "fix" > this, I highlight everything with the mouse, then click somewhere > benign to deselect and then everything is fine... until the next time > it happens. > > * Konsole. I've been running using icewm, but I like konsole. > Everything with konsole will be fine--the menus, window tab-bar, and > the actual console view itself never has this problem. However, the > pixmaps that should appear on the status bar (kill this window, make > a new window, the terminal icons on the tabs) intermitantly disppear. > Sometimes they'll reappear randomly when I mouse over them, but not > always--I can't easily make it happen on way or another. > > * Cheesetracker - none of the text ever has any problems, nor any > pixmaps in the main window. The toolbar pixmaps randomly disappear > and reappear when you mouse over them. > > * Openoffice (from 32-bit chroot) -- menu text never appears, and I > can't get it to. Text entered (say in oowriter) appears while typing, > but then disappears, never to return, if you start highlighting, > backspacing, or scrolling around. Doesn't seem to have a problem with > pixmaps, though. > > * All sorts of other programs are better/wrose/different, but it > NEVER happens with an xterm, it doesn't seem to happen with any of > the WM widgets themselves in icewm, and there are lots of programs > where it will just never happen. > > I've tried a bunch of different font-relating things (changing what > fonts are installed, changing some settings in /etc/fonts/local.conf, > > For reference, I'm running pure64 unstable, and using the binary > nVidia drivers (because I need 3D acceleration). > > If anyone has any suggestions, let me know. =) I really would appreciate suggestions. (= -- Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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