On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 02:23:41AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > 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 doubt it's an icewm problem, since gtk and Qt apps are affected too. Something's broken much lower down in the font system. > 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. ??? Sorry, don't understand. > Ah. I thought you just had "random smears of pixels". No, it looks as though someone has tried to write the window title at a height of two or three pixels or so. > I've dropped the old core fonts with --enable-builtin-fonts in the > xserver (1.5.3) : I'll try that. > The other obvious candidate is freetype, even though it was working > with 7.2. Seems unlikely: FLTK is configured to use freetype and thats the one thing that *is* working. Someone else has fixed things by reconfiguring fontconfig: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-March/044278.html > 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 I've been putting off upgrading Xorg for the same reason - it just works. Unfortunately it's stopping me upgrading the kernel - I'm on 2.6.27 and if I upgrade to 2.6.28 then Xorg 7.2 blackscreens after a few minutes! I figured there wasn't much point complaining without upgrading to the latest Xorg first, hence all this hassle. Regards, Jeremy Henty -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
