Re: font troubles in sid

2002-05-20 Thread James Hughes
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 05:04:06PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "James" == James Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > James> Hi, A while ago, after doing an upgrade, I noticed that fonts in > James> galeon where displaying as rectangles. ... > > This is probably because gtk is trying to us

Re: font troubles in sid

2002-05-20 Thread Marc Wilson
Well, the "fonts-as-boxes" problem is well documented in the X FAQ, but basically it boils down to GTK fonts incompletely specifying the font they want, and then not being able to deal properly with what the X server gives them in answer to their request. Notice that every problem application desc

Re: font troubles in sid

2002-05-20 Thread shamad
James, I had fonts which actually were looking like bar codes... I got the following advice and it worked: Add in the section Device of the /etc/X11/XF86Config file, the following: Option "NoAccel" It seems to be related to the xserver not properly managing the accelerated fonts You may want to giv

Re: font troubles in sid

2002-05-20 Thread Hubert Chan
> "James" == James Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: James> Hi, A while ago, after doing an upgrade, I noticed that fonts in James> galeon where displaying as rectangles. ... This is probably because gtk is trying to use the Unicode codepage. Try changing it to another codepage, like iso885