Re: 'Applications -> Preferences -> Font' not working.

[Adam Bogacki <afb@paradise.net.nz>]

Thanks, see below.

Matt Brubeck wrote:
> Adam Bogacki wrote:
>
> > after being a long-term satisfied gnome-user I suddenly find that
> >
> > Applications -> Desktop Preferences -> Font
> > (or) -> Themes  (or) ->  Sound
> >
> > don't work.
> >   
> Please give more details.  What do you mean by "don't work"?  Exactly
> what happens when you try to change these preferences?
When I click 'Applications->Desktop Preferences->Font' on the top
left of the top panel
a small square appears on the bottom left of the bottom panel saying

 'Aa Starting Font'

... sits there for a while ... then disappears. Previously a font
config panel would open up
in the center of the screen allowing me to adjust font size and/or
select another font.

The same occurs for 'Applications->Desktop Preferences->Themes'
and
'Applications->Desktop Preferences-> Sound'. The last is not so
important since the ALSA sound modules in 2.6.5 kicked in.
> > I recently did a number of 'apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing" [...]
> >   
> Were any packages inadvertently removed by the "apt-get dist-upgrade"?
Not that I am aware of.
> Was there a reason you were performing the dist-upgrade?
I had upgraded to kernel 2.6.5 but on second dist-upgrade I could not
get past a 'Kernel Panic'. I got past this via mkinitrd and tried to fix
any problems via 'apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing'. 

***In fairness, this behaviour predates the 2.6.5 upgrade.

The dist-upgrade may be irrelevant.

For a long time previously, I took font and theme selection for granted.

Adam Bogacki,
afb@paradise.net.nz