Thanks Jan. I forgot to mention that I ran gvim in Enlightenment and
observed the same problem.

Steve

On 11/30/05, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
>
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