On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 02:12:40PM -0500, Michael George wrote:
I recently upgraded my kernel and a few other packages on my system.
Now when I start up vmware-player, I don't get any fonts -- just little
blocks. I noticed the same thing when I start realplayer. Both seem to
work fine, but it's rather hard to work with them when I cannot see the
fonts 1n the windows.
I have an amd64 system and have asked over there and someone suggested
perhaps my gtk font paths are broken. I run CTWM rather than Gnome or
KDE (if that makes a difference...) and I'm not sure where they would be
broken that I need to fix them. In the past they have just worked.
I ran kcontrol and checked to see if its fonts seem to be appearing
right, and they display fine. I found a reference when searching online
to gconftool-2, but I'm not sure what settings/directories I should look
at in there...
So far, I am not finding anything useful through Google. If anyone has
any references that I should or could read to help me with this, I'm all
ears.
I'm posting this to the gentoo-user and ctwm lists, as both the distro
and window manager would be involved...
Some package versions that might be relevant:
gtk+: both 1.2.10-r12 and 2.10.6 are installed
gtk+extra: 2.1.1
gtk-engines: 2.8.2
gtk-engines-xfce: 2.2.8-r1
emul-linux-x86-gtklibs: 10.0.r1
gentoo-sources (kernel): 2.6.19-r5
ctwm: 3.7
I recently upgraded a bunch of the emul-linux-x86 libraries.
I have tried to remove and re-emerge vmware-player to no avail.
I user on the gentoo-amd64 list lead me to the answer. I had upgraded
emul-linux-x86-gtklibs to 10.0-r1, but the qt3 USE flag was set in
make.conf. I turned off that flag and rebuild the library and all is
well!
Gentoo users are awesome!
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