Re: font corruption when using xinerama + gnome2 apps

[Jeff Waugh <jdub@perkypants.org>]

<quote who="Mourad De Clerck">

> I'm still experiencing a problem with fonts when using Xinerama. What
> happens is that in alot of gnome2 apps, on my primary head the first
> letter from every word is missing, en on the secondary head the missing
> letters from the primary are sprinkled a bit everywhere.

> - GDK_USE_XFT is set to "1"
> - hardware is a matrox G550

  ^^^ :-)

> - xfree86 packages used are branden's 4.2.0-0pre1v3
> 
> Is this a problem with X, or with one of the Gnome2 libs?

It's a bug in the XFree86 Matrox drivers, not sure if it's present in the
Matrox distributed ones though.

- Jeff

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