On 15/12/06, CtM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A. S. Budden wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I recently moved house and, after my computer had been in a box for a > > bit over a month, I thought it would be worthwhile to get it up-to-date > > by doing pacman -Syu. I am beginning to regret that decision. > > > > After the upgrade, the fonts in GDM were replaced with little square > > boxes. This was (relatively) easily fixed courtesy of a page I found on > > the Arch site somewhere: I just had to generate /etc/pango/pango.modules > > according to the provided command. I did this and GDM started working > > again. However, this wasn't the end of my font woes. I logged into > > enlightenment and everything seemed fine: the fonts in the Epplets and > > in my Xterm were fine and everything seemed to be working ok, until I > > loaded Firefox (or should that be "Bon Echo"?). > > > > The text in the title bar keeps disappearing, as does the text in the > > window itself. Occasionally it'll reappear (particularly if you select > > the text), but it never stays there for long. The same is seen in gvim > > and many other programs. OpenOffice maintains the text okay in the > > Window, but the title/menu bar doesn't cope. > > > > I have also tried checking a different login on the computer (using > > KDE). The Konsole text is invisible, as is that in Konqueror and the > > KDE menu (and probably many other programs). Thunderbird and Firefox > > display the "intermittent text" problem described above. > > > > I have uploaded some screenshots of the problem to my webspace: > > > > http://tinyurl.com/ycdqt7 > > http://tinyurl.com/ycoovs > > http://tinyurl.com/yddl44 > > http://tinyurl.com/yg25p7 > > > > An extract from pacman.log showing the upgrade is here: > > > > http://tinyurl.com/yggp6o > > > > I can find no reference to this problem anywhere, so I am struggling > > to find a solution (particularly given that Firefox is so hard to use). > > > > Can anyone offer any suggestions with this please? I am at a loss and > > my Arch Linux is unusable! > > > > Many thanks in advance for your help, > > > > Al > > > > _______________________________________________ > > arch mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > > > > > Hi Al, > > I had the exact same problem with the fonts disappearing. In Gnome, > I went to System > Preferences > Font > then I selected subpixel > smoothing for LCD's which is the type of monitor I was using. Somehow it > had defaulted to the option above for CRT. Making that change fixed the > issue with the text disappearing. I'm not sure if it will work for you > but it's worth looking into. I have no idea where the setting would be > in KDE as I haven't gone near that desktop in about 4 years. > In terms of the boxes issue, I read that it was a locales issue > because all of the locales were no longer loaded by default so you > needed to go into /etc/locales.gen and uncomment the locales you want to > have loaded, most commonly: > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 > en_US ISO-8859-1 > and then run locale-gen to re-generate the supported locales. This > didn't fix the boxes issue for me on one of my boxes, but it did for > other people apparently.
That looks interesting, thanks. The locales.gen thing was done on a previous upgrade, so I don't think it's that, but I'll see if the gnome settings fix it for the 'new account' and if so, I'll see what I can do with KDE and enlightenment. Will have a look when I get home tonight. Thanks for the suggestion. Al _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
