I recently did a system upgrade (from the current, extra, community and testing repositories) and since then when I start gvim, the fonts in the text part of the window (but not the menus) are garbled (for illustration see the screenshots of grabled gvim fonts and refreshed gvim at http://membres.lycos.fr/sw8511/)
If the gvim window gets hidden behind other windows, then when I bring it back to the front the fonts are clear, but that only lasts until I start typing again or use the scroll bar.
I noticed that in other gtk2 applications (gftp and gimp) fonts on a white background were also garbled sometimes (but not everywhere in the application). In gftp, for instance, when transfering files, the transfer progress information is blurred and unreadable just like in gvim. At first I thought it must be a gtk2 problem: I checked /var/log/pacman.log to see what the system upgrade had done and indeed gtk2 had been upgraded as a requirement for firefox.
But when I tried to run gvim remotely using Exceed on the remote machine, and the fonts appeared correctly... so maybe it's not gtk2 after all but a problem with the X server.
I tried running fc-cache -vf, but that made no difference.
I checked my xorg.conf file. I ran hwd -x to generate a sample xorg.conf file, and then I copied the new font paths which appeared in the sample file and which weren't in my original "File" section in xorg.conf. That didn't help either.
I don't know where to try next - any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Steve
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