Re: Serious problem: text disappeared everywhere

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:04:59 -0400, Edward Shornock (debian ml) wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:00:38AM -0400, Yang Sheng wrote:
> > Yeah, I checked my xbase-clients , it's 1.7.1-ds3...
> > 
> > But I fixed the problem now.
> > 
> > Thanks to Edward.  I closed anti-aliasing, the problem remains. But when I
> > reopen it, I found the problem was fixed.
> > 
> > And this only appeared in the gtk program.
> > 
> > Thanks for help!
> 
> I'm glad that worked for you too. I can't say I understand *why* that
> works, but for two of my computers it resolved it for me. It was damn
> near impoosible to look at web sites using Firefox or carry on a
> conversation in Gaim with most of the text being gone until the mouse
> pointer hovered over the missing area. :P It happened for me using any
> GTK applications within any window manager/desktop environment.
> 
> I remember seeing a bug filed for this within the Debian BTS, but I
> can't remember what it was filed against. 

libcairo2:

#377755 [FIXED 1.2.0-4]: Disappearing text in pango applications

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Regards,
          Florian