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Re: disappearing fonts/pixmaps



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. (=

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Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
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