On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
On 2005-11-28, Vincent Povirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been trying to get..basically the same settings I've been using
before (on a gentoo system that seems to have been messed up somehow
when the memory went bad..what a week this has been..) on a new ubuntu
install (one thing gentoo has taught me is that I don't know how to
maintain a linux system properly). I've been starting
gnome-settings-daemon and ion3 without any problems up until now .
http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html#1.13
Gnome programs hate everything that's not sanctified by the allmighty
Gnome of Absolute Unusabilty, and especially everything that doesn't use
fugly freetype fonts.
Seriously, this is a known issue, and it seems to either be intentional or
an X bug, or both, and only affects localised font support code in Xlib.
Running 'xset -fp rehash' seems to remedy the situation. The problem might
already have been fixed since it didn't happen on my system when I thought
of reporting it through Debian's bug tracking system a month or so ago.
Therefore I wasn't appropriate to report it through that system, and since
the X and Gnome crowd seem to require registration to a bugzilla system to
report bugs directly to them, they apparently don't even want know how buggy
shit their code is.
I was told by someone on the Gnome team that this is a side effect of
Gnome's attempting to merge the standard X settings with the Gnome
settings, that (I believe) the code behind this was being looked at to
rewrite/rework, and that one can turn off the merging somewhere in
Gnome.
For whatever that's worth.
-Etan
