On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:11, Jeffrey Chuang wrote: > One weird effect is that moving the text over the menus sometimes makes > the text temporarily appear. When it does, the font looks fine. But this > only works in certain places on the menus. > > I tried installing xft (libxft2 2.1.2-4) but this didn't seem to make any > difference either. As for hardware issues, the only thing that I can think > of is that I'm running debian on my laptop through vmware, and I manually > adjusted the XF86Config-4 file to allow my screen resolution of 1400x1050 > to work. To do this, I tweaked the screen resolution and the hsync rate. > > Anyway, is this normal that I can't get openoffice writer to show menus > correctly? Or am I doing something wrong? Do I have to somehow manually > disable use of libfreetype?
I've seen some strange font problems caused by libxrender1. Try downgrading to 0.8.3-2 (available from snapshot.debian.net) and see if it makes any difference. Chris
