Re: Fonts in GTK
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:47:40PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> * J. D. Kitch (adahma@io.com) [010903 19:16]:
> > I had a working GNOME install from Woody. I just updated to Sid, and
> > everything seemed to go quite nicely, but now in GNOME, or rather
> > anything that uses GTK, I see only a bunch of little squares where I
> > should be seeing text. Can anyone tell me what I hosed, and what I
> > need to do to correct it?
>
> I ran into this myself and tried about 1400 different things to fix it.
> I did... Problem is I'm not sure which did it ;-)
>
> I'd suggest two fairly simple things:
>
> -- Get rid of 'xfs' (if you don't need it -- you *don't* need it for
> local TrueType font support, for example)
This appears to be the fix.
I had this problem last night on several machines when I upgraded from 4.0.3
to 4.1.0. I restarted X and the fonts were still all screwy. Then I killed
xfs .. problem solved. I also restarted xfs and it worked fine from then
on.
Perhaps there was some sort of protocol change between 4.0.3 and 4.1.0 and
the upgrade neglected to restart xfs? I admit that I upgraded while I was
running X and xfs probably couldn't have been safely restarted, but it would
have been nice to have some sort of notice saying so.
> -- Choose either 75dpi or 100dpi xfonts and whichever you don't use,
> remove/purge the other. Then go through the various config files and
> manually remove the references to them.
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