Re: audacity number fonts
On Thursday 26 Apr 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:53:19PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > On Friday 20 Apr 2007, Bob McGowan wrote:
> > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 08:06:17PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > > >> On Friday 20 April 2007 19:27, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > >>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:47:19PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > > >>>> I recent update to debian sid has had a strange side effect.
> > > >>>> When I run audacity, most of the text is fine, but where
> > > >>>> there are numbers they are all shown as 0.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Anyone else experiencing this?
> > > >>>
> > > >>> looks fine here.
> > > >>
> > > >> I sometimes feel I have a completely different version of
> > > >> Debian to everyone else :-(
> > > >
> > > > I know the feeling. I'm going through that with oocalc lately.
> > > > on one machine certain files won't open and crash the program,
> > > > but work fine on others. bah.
> > > >
> > > > to your problem. I'd guess its more of a font issue than an
> > > > audacity issue. I know that doesn't really help, but maybe it
> > > > will steer you in the right direction.
> > > >
> > > > A
> > >
> > > I'm actually having font problems with Audacity, as well, but
> > > have not had time to figure anything out.
> > >
> > > In my case, menu titles and sub-menu lists are practically
> > > unreadable. This also impacts some TCL/Tk based apps like tkman.
> > > So my problem sounds a bit more general in nature.
> > >
> > > I have a second system, basic etch with KDE and Audacity, in
> > > which everything is fine, so, when I get time, I'll be comparing
> > > between the two to see if anything obvious can be found.
> > >
> > > Bob
> >
> > I am still having problems, although today I loaded up iceweasel
> > for the first time (I normally use Konqureror) and it was showing a
> > similar problem.
> >
> > I suppose its something to do with gtk2 fonts. But I don't really
> > know what I could have wrong. Anyone with ideas. - is the somthing
> > I should try and re-install?
>
> What toolkit does audacity use?
It appears to use gtk2 - given the style of the file save dialog box.
But then most of the text looks alright. Its only the numbers for the
timeline (and a few other places)
>
> Have you tried changing the system fonts?
? not sure what you mean
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Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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