On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 01:01:38AM +0100, Jeremy Henty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:31:02AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > First, you don't tell us which windowmanager you are using. > > Sorry. I'm using icewm. Ah, a man of tast ;-) > > > Second, I understand what menus are, but what specifically is "and > > such like" - it clearly isn't text _within_ applications, but is it > > text on the "panel", or in the window titles, or something else ? > > Stuff that is affected: > - Icewm right-button menu > - Icewm dialogs > - text on the buttons in the icewm taskbar > - icewm window titles > - GUI widget text in applications, *except* FLTK applications Odd, all of these work for me (icewm-1.3.3).
I tried to strace 'startx' to look for any references to fonts, but there weren't any. With strace -f or -ff 'startx' isn't able to write to /var/log. > > Stuff that is not affected: > - FLTK widgets > - the main window of rxvt (terminal emulator) > - web pages in Firefox I don't have any FLTK things here. Urxvt works (with truetype fonts), but so does everything else. > > I have the DejaVu fonts installed. They show up nicely in fc-list and > they are what Firefox uses for web page text. > > > You are upgrading an old system, I think. Have you *upgraded* > > freetype, fontconfig, and cairo ? > > I have kept everything pretty up-to-date except Xorg itself. Current > versions are: > > cairo-1.8.6 > pango-1.22.4 > fontconfig-2.6.0 > freetype-2.3.9 I'm on freetype-2.3.7. Don't have time to keep track of everything, but 2.3.9 looks like a mandatory upgrade if you were on 2.3.9. > > None of these had any problems running against Xorg 7.2 (not even the > famously hairy freetype upgrade broke anything). > > I tried switching to Xorg 7.4 but linking the font directory back to > the Xorg 7.2 fonts. That didn't fix anything, so it's not that the > fonts themselves are broken (or at least it's not just that). The > text looks as though it's been rendered at a ludicrously small size, > though I can't be sure that is actually what has gone wrong. > Ah. I thought you just had "random smears of pixels". > Re-running mkfontdir and mkfontscale in all the font directories in > lib/X11/fonts hasn't helped either. I've dropped the old core fonts with --enable-builtin-fonts in the xserver (1.5.3) : not very nice for the division symbol in xcalc, no other problems I've noticed - and I just put the fonts there and let it work. I've got various TTF directories (dejavu etc) in /usr/share/fonts plus a /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF symlink to a non-existent /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ttf. I guess you can say I've stopped worrying about the fonts. So, what is different for you ? When you say the text looks as if it has been rendered at a ludicrously small size, I wonder about xorg-server (ISTR a previous lost the dpi information, but I could be mistaken, and anyway I think you said you were using 1.5.3). The other obvious candidate is freetype, even though it was working with 7.2. Dunno. I try to keep my systems in use for longer nowadays, but I haven't upgraded xorg on a working system for a bit over a year (and that was only because I had problems with the radeon driver on a mac ppc). Sorry, this isn't very helpful. ĸen > > Regards, > > Jeremy Henty > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
