I have installed gaim, then yesterday install .66. All is fine and well here. Fonts 
included. Mdk9.1 stock install (mostly)

Brian D. Klar - CVE
Multimax 
Network Engineer
WPAFB


-----Original Message-----
From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 2:17 PM
To: Expert List
Subject: Re: [expert] Gaim 066 Fonts


> Regarding changes in gaim, yes the changes stay as I have set them but to no 
> effect, nothing is changed in the message window, either incoming nor 
> outgoing. 
> Just using the "out of the box" theme for 9.1 (Keramik, I think)..
> Another thing that may be related, I'm using the Yahoo Messenger protocol and 
> am also having font problems with ymessenger under 9.1.
> In fact, that is why I changed to gaim in the first place, the fonts in 
> ymessenger are extremely tiny - totally unreadable and no change can be made 
> to them either. 
> SuSE 8.2 treats Ymessenger the same as Mandrake 9.0 did, it works as 
> advertised. Haven't tried latest gaim on SuSE yet, might be interesting 
> <G>....
> Strangely enough, ymessenger worked just fine in the first couple of 9.1 
> betas, XFree 4.2.99, but went totally bonkers after the change to 4.3.x..
> There has to be some place that controls the font rendering in these two 
> applications aside from all the rest. The rest of the system is perfectly OK. 
> No font issues at all with any other app's just these two...

As for the out of the box theme.  It's galaxy.  And now I see that we do
notice the same things.  As for ymessenger.  It was built for MDK 8.0. 
This alone should explain why it doesn't work at all on 9.1.  On the
other... Seems to be a yahoo thing.  

James




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