on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:41:36AM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) (dm@zensunni.demon.nl) wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 21:25:40 +1100, Adam Bogacki wrote: > >after almost a year of use I find that the fonts on my Gnome panels and > >sub-menus has been replaced by rectangles made of dots. > > Yes. See http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/23/ or search for > "rectangle, square" in the archives for debian-user at > http://lists.debian.org/search.html . > > > ... and knows how to fix it ? > > There are various fixes, including > - Restarting font servers > - Upgrading to an XFree 86 version 4 X server and font server > - Reordering the FontPath settings in XF86Config > - Switching to a Gtk theme that explicitly specifies the use of 1-byte fonts I'll just pitch in that I've walked through the first three options listed here without luck. Currently the only option I've got under Sid is to use non double-byte fonts. The root cause of this bug is a libgtk-1.2 bug. It's supposed to be fixed in 1.4. What to do in the interim isn't clear. And yes, it's frustrating as hell. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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