Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution
Hi, I managed to get rid of the evolution font boxes, by specifying courier 10 pitch in the gnome font dialog, instead of courier new, for fixed-width fonts. However, courier 10-pitch looks a bit ugly... What's wrong with courier new, and why does it show boxes for spaces? the firefox font box problem is still there too: On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 09:30 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 6/13/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ firefox No running windows found Warning: Cannot convert string -bh-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 to type FontStruct what on earth does that mean? It means that firefox was looking for this font at 140dpi, and couldn't find it. Assuming that this is actually important, I am assuming it _is_ important, because firefox shows ugly squares everywhere in between words. do you have any ~/.gtk* files? If so, do they specify any fonts? (grep -i font ~/.gtk*) no, nothing. What dpi is your X server running at? (xdpyinfo | grep -C 5 resolution) $o | grep -C 5 resolution number of screens:1 screen #0: print screen:no dimensions:1680x1050 pixels (569x356 millimeters) resolution:75x75 dots per inch depths (7):24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32 root window id:0x44 depth of root window:24 planes number of colormaps:minimum 1, maximum 1 default colormap:0x20 Finally, what does xset -q report for FontPath. Font Path: /usr/share/fonts/misc,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/TTF,/usr/share/fonts/Type1,/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/lib/fonts/ I tried installing font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi and font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi, I tried playing around with font settings in firefox and gnome, and I still get these ugly boxes when viewing java applets in firefox... any more suggestions? thanks a lot for the help - this is really annoying. I'm starting to see it on other machines too - not just my laptop... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) -- Unknown source -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution
I just discovered something else: when I click in a text box in java in firefox, I get this message on the terminal: Warning: Name: textfield Class: XmTextField Character '\61' not supported in font. Discarded. what does that mean? is it related? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Writing software is more fun than working. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution
On 6/13/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ firefox No running windows found Warning: Cannot convert string -bh-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 to type FontStruct what on earth does that mean? It means that firefox was looking for this font at 140dpi, and couldn't find it. Assuming that this is actually important, do you have any ~/.gtk* files? If so, do they specify any fonts? (grep -i font ~/.gtk*) What dpi is your X server running at? (xdpyinfo | grep -C 5 resolution) Finally, what does xset -q report for FontPath. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution
On 14/06/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately different encodings didn't make much difference. However, I did notice this when I started firefox from the command line: $ firefox No running windows found Warning: Cannot convert string -bh-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 to type FontStruct what on earth does that mean? I tried installing font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi and font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi but that didn't seem to do anything. I think I'm barking up the wrong tree... If changing the encoding did not help, it is worth checking your font file permissions. Have a look at this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1427510 and the link it provides at the bottom: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1618075#1618075 HTH -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 22:21 +, Mick wrote: On 14/06/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately different encodings didn't make much difference. However, I did notice this when I started firefox from the command line: $ firefox No running windows found Warning: Cannot convert string -bh-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 to type FontStruct what on earth does that mean? I tried installing font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi and font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi but that didn't seem to do anything. I think I'm barking up the wrong tree... If changing the encoding did not help, it is worth checking your font file permissions. Have a look at this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1427510 and the link it provides at the bottom: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1618075#1618075 I looked there, but all I could find was some permissions problems, none of which I had... any other tips? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Maybe you can't buy happiness, but these days you can certainly charge it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution
On 13/06/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm getting a strange font problem in evolution and firefox - evolution shows square boxes when it should be showing tabs, and firefox shows square boxes in java applets when it should be showing spaces. Both applications show the tab / space as well, but there's these little boxes all over the place. I've tried installing a few fonts, or looking for use flags that might affect it, but nothing worked - I'm completely stumped. Can anyone help me solve this? What would you suggest? xorg.conf? use flags? Not sure it helps, but I occasionally see the same effect with the square boxes in Konqueror (I don't have Java on my systems). Changing encoding manually solves it. So I assume that it is related to some language code meta tag in the html/css code which Konqueror does not like. Opera and FF seem to be less fussy about it. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:13 +, Mick wrote: On 13/06/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm getting a strange font problem in evolution and firefox - evolution shows square boxes when it should be showing tabs, and firefox shows square boxes in java applets when it should be showing spaces. Not sure it helps, but I occasionally see the same effect with the square boxes in Konqueror (I don't have Java on my systems). Changing encoding manually solves it. So I assume that it is related to some language code meta tag in the html/css code which Konqueror does not like. Opera and FF seem to be less fussy about it. Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately different encodings didn't make much difference. However, I did notice this when I started firefox from the command line: $ firefox No running windows found Warning: Cannot convert string -bh-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 to type FontStruct what on earth does that mean? I tried installing font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi and font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi but that didn't seem to do anything. I think I'm barking up the wrong tree... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au There is no royal road to geometry. -- Euclid -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
