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Re: Problem with Menus in OpenOffice1.1.0-2



On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:11, Jeffrey Chuang wrote:
> One weird effect is that moving the text over the menus sometimes makes
> the text temporarily appear. When it does, the font looks fine. But this
> only works in certain places on the menus.
> 
> I tried installing xft (libxft2 2.1.2-4) but this didn't seem to make any
> difference either. As for hardware issues, the only thing that I can think
> of is that I'm running debian on my laptop through vmware, and I manually
> adjusted the XF86Config-4 file to allow my screen resolution of 1400x1050
> to work. To do this, I tweaked the screen resolution and the hsync rate.
> 
> Anyway, is this normal that I can't get openoffice writer to show menus
> correctly? Or am I doing something wrong? Do I have to somehow manually
> disable use of libfreetype?

I've seen some strange font problems caused by libxrender1. Try
downgrading to 0.8.3-2 (available from snapshot.debian.net) and see if
it makes any difference.

Chris



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