Re: gnome panel fonts on startup

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:50:41 -0400, songbird wrote:

> what controls the display of the fonts in the gnome-panel when it first
> starts up?

Well, starting from gnome-shell, "mutter" is the window manager which 
relies in "clutter" as the graphical library to draw the GUI.

>   i'm running current unstable versions of gnome, gnome-panel,
> gnome-shell, up to date on graphics drivers, tried different kernels,
> tried creating new user, etc. all same result.
> 
>   the whole thing is blank other than the letter "m"
> (which is the first letter of the user name "me") but as time goes on
> the clock gets digits as they change.

(...)

When that happens, try by restarting gnome-shell (Alt+F2 and type "r"), 
I've also experienced the "missing letters" from time to time.
 
Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón