On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 16:52 +0000, Stephen Wilkinson wrote: > Dear All, > > 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
I think it's KDE screwing up your GTK settings. When running remotely, I guess you don't run it in a full KDE environment. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
