Re: No fonts/text in GTK2 apps

[MrVanes <mrvanes_nospam@mrvanes.com>]

My problems are solved. Sorry to have bothered the community with my
ramblings, it was all a library mess. For some reason I had
freetype/fontconfig libs in /usr/local/lib that were outdated, but still
linked to?
With a little creative deleting/moving/recompiling/headbanging/cursing I
managed to get my dependancies back in order (/usr/lib) and have a working
gtk-2.0 subsystem again... 

Hope this might be of any help to anyone anyway.

Grtz. Martin

Sylvain Vedrenne wrote:

> MrVanes wrote:
>> Since some time I don't have any fonts/text in GTK2 apps anymore.
>> Everywhere characters should be , there's void and spacing is like
>> minimal, so it looks like font nothing, with space 0 is selected or so.
>> The configure app switch (for GTK1) has text, switch2 is empty like the
>> rest of the GTK2 apps.
>> 
>> I normally use KDE, so it's not a very big deal but Mozilla recently
>> switched to GTK2 for firefox 0.9rc and now it's starting to become
>> annoying. Anybody ANY idea where to start looking?
>> 
>> It looks like all dependencies for my packages are met. (lib)Pango,
>> freetype and xft are all installed and up and running (as far as I
>> understand). GTK1 apps work normal, like I said...
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Martin
> Hello list,
> 
> I guess the fonts on Martin's computer are 'invisible' because very small.
> 
>  From time to time, when I start my Debian sid, gdm displays and the
> fonts in it are so small that I can't read anything. If I log in (XFCE +
> GNOME-panel), then all apps have tiny fonts. So I kill gdm and restart
> it then it is fine, but I don't understand... :-(
> 
> Several weeks ago, I swear I spent a lot of time googling around,
> checking man pages and trying to understand more about fonts, but I'm
> still weak at it. Is it that complicated?
> 
> Honestly, I don't have time these days to find out more by myself.
> And you will agree with me that font problems are _very_ disturbing!
> 
> => Could anyone give us a link to a good Fonts troubleshooting document?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Sylvain.
> 
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