On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I did an 'apt-get upgrade' to my testing system yesterday and got > 50 > MB of upgraded packages(!) > > This upgrade included version 4.10 of X. I notice now that on a large > number of applications, such as the Gnome desktop and applications > which have pop-up or drop-down menus, that the text has been replaced > by squares (in fact, this makes Gnome essentially unusable; switching > to kde restored much of the functionality). I assume this means that a > particular font got messed up by the upgrade, but I really don't know > where to look. Has anyone else seen this (and found a solution)?
I tried Gnome for the first time in a long time last night and had the same problem, it was using blackbox - which looked OK, just the Gnome bits were un-usable. I fired up XFCE, started the gnome-panel (which came up ok), used the gnome control center to change the gtk theme and font, logged out, restarted gnome-session... and all is well[1]. I'm using the svga server from X-3.3.6. - Bruce [1] ...except that Gnome pauses for 2-3 second before it catches up with the pointer when using the menus, and another 2-3 second pause before it opens up a submenu... I think I'll stick with KDE, it may be a little slower starting up apps, but at least it responds immediately when the pointer is moved.
