Bug#109611: X11-apps only display squares instead of characters
(btw, this should probably be reassigned somewhere, probably to an
xfree86 package, since the problem manifests itself when upgrading X)
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:32:42PM +0200, Dirk Allard <allard@mail.Uni-Mainz.de> was heard to say:
> Some days ago I upgraded from unstable to the latest version of unstable.
> Since then only kde apps (and opera) display the correct characters. All
> other x11 apps only display squares instead of characters. I controlled
> the font paths in XF86Config-4, they seem to be ok.
Just another datapoint: it was my observation that this problem went away
after restarting X. My guess is that the upgrade from 4.0.0 -> 4.1.0
introduced some sort of nasty incompatibility with fonts/font servers.
Note that things like KDE and Opera are most likely rendering their own
fonts to work around limitations in the X font model..
Does this happen when upgrading from stable? (personally, I wouldn't
do an upgrade like that in an X session if I could avoid it, but I'm
sure some people will try it)
Daniel
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