Bug#377147: firefox: text rendering badly damaged
reassign 377147 kcontrol 4:3.3.2-1 tag 377147 fixed-upstream patch pending thanks * Branden Robinson [Sun, 16 Jul 2006 00:08:51 -0400]: On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 07:12:29PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: Hi guys, I've been also suffering this, and been workarounding it by keeping libcairo2 to 1.0.4... until today. Seems like the problem only happens to people running GTK+ apps under KDE (don't know about Christopher J Peikert, but the rest, we do). Today I discovered this piece of advice, that did the trick for me: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2006/07/msg00040.html I have no idea why running GTK+ from within KDE makes them influenced by ~/.qt/qtrc. I can confirm that this works for me as well, as it did for Adeodato, by making the requisite edit and restarting KDE. I had enableXft=true, but useXft=false. As a bonus, when I restarted, I had proper anti-aliasing in Mozilla, GTK+ apps, Qt apps, etc., which I'd never had on this workstation (which has been running Debian unstable for years), and I never knew why. I don't regard my report as resolved, though, as the original problem is a perverse situation no matter how the user has things configured. Neither did I, no. I had some more time today to dig what was happening, and figured it out. It is a bug in KDE, not in libcairo, and it'll be fixed in the next kdebase upload. For the record, the patch (included in KDE 3.5.4) is: http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdebase/kcontrol/krdb/krdb.cpp?rev=551202r1=541552r2=551202 Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Andrés Calamaro - ¿Para qué?
Bug#377147: firefox: text rendering badly damaged
Hi guys, I've been also suffering this, and been workarounding it by keeping libcairo2 to 1.0.4... until today. Seems like the problem only happens to people running GTK+ apps under KDE (don't know about Christopher J Peikert, but the rest, we do). Today I discovered this piece of advice, that did the trick for me: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2006/07/msg00040.html I have no idea why running GTK+ from within KDE makes them influenced by ~/.qt/qtrc. Cheers, * Branden Robinson [Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:54:06 -0400]: Rendering of text seems to be damaged beyond usability in the latest version of Firefox. http://redwald.deadbeast.net/tmp/firefox-horked.png * Christopher Martin [Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:53:04 -0400]: I can confirm this. At least some other apps seem to be affected - Adobe Reader, for instance. Setting MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO to 1 fixes Firefox. And turning on anti-aliasing (by using the KDE Control Centre which edits $HOME/.fonts.conf) also makes the problem go away for all affected apps. I also noticed another 'fix' for all affected apps - revert libcairo2 to the version in testing, 1.0.4-2. The recent cairo upload might explain why the symptoms only popped up a few days ago. * Christopher J Peikert [Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:41:30 -0400]: I get nearly the exact same behavior on my x86 system. The behavior is quite unpredictable -- some pages do not cause it. Other times, I can scroll to the bottom of the page, then scroll up and see all the missing text. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Ella Baila Sola - Besos de hielo
Bug#377147: firefox: text rendering badly damaged
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 07:12:29PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: Hi guys, I've been also suffering this, and been workarounding it by keeping libcairo2 to 1.0.4... until today. Seems like the problem only happens to people running GTK+ apps under KDE (don't know about Christopher J Peikert, but the rest, we do). Today I discovered this piece of advice, that did the trick for me: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2006/07/msg00040.html I have no idea why running GTK+ from within KDE makes them influenced by ~/.qt/qtrc. I can confirm that this works for me as well, as it did for Adeodato, by making the requisite edit and restarting KDE. I had enableXft=true, but useXft=false. As a bonus, when I restarted, I had proper anti-aliasing in Mozilla, GTK+ apps, Qt apps, etc., which I'd never had on this workstation (which has been running Debian unstable for years), and I never knew why. I don't regard my report as resolved, though, as the original problem is a perverse situation no matter how the user has things configured. Thanks for pointing out this much-improved workaround! -- G. Branden Robinson| When dogma enters the brain, all Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual activity ceases. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Anton Wilson http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#377147: firefox: text rendering badly damaged
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:54:06PM -0400, Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-1 Severity: important Rendering of text seems to be damaged beyond usability in the latest version of Firefox. Mousing over the text makes it appear, but it goes away again after a redraw. Only the first word in a sentence appears, up to the first occurrence of whitespace. *** N.B.: This also affects menus, like the bookmark menu. *** *** It is NOT confined to the browser window. *** How is your no-AA being configured ? Through about:config ? Through .fonts.conf ? What happens if you run with the MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO environment variable set to 1 ? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#377147: firefox: text rendering badly damaged
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 07:56:20AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:54:06PM -0400, Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-1 Severity: important Rendering of text seems to be damaged beyond usability in the latest version of Firefox. Mousing over the text makes it appear, but it goes away again after a redraw. Only the first word in a sentence appears, up to the first occurrence of whitespace. *** N.B.: This also affects menus, like the bookmark menu. *** *** It is NOT confined to the browser window. *** How is your no-AA being configured ? Through about:config ? Through .fonts.conf ? I'm not sure how to determine whether I'm configuring AA through about:config. Maybe you could tell me? I do have a $HOME/.fonts.conf, and I am attaching it. What happens if you run with the MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO environment variable set to 1 ? The problem goes away. The fonts are a look at little worse but at least I can read things. Thanks for the workaround! -- G. Branden Robinson|It's extremely difficult to govern Debian GNU/Linux |when you control all three branches [EMAIL PROTECTED] |of government. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |-- John Feehery signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#377147: firefox: text rendering badly damaged
Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-1 Severity: important Rendering of text seems to be damaged beyond usability in the latest version of Firefox. Mousing over the text makes it appear, but it goes away again after a redraw. I can confirm this. At least some other apps seem to be affected - Adobe Reader, for instance. Setting MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO to 1 fixes Firefox. And turning on anti-aliasing (by using the KDE Control Centre which edits $HOME/.fonts.conf) also makes the problem go away for all affected apps. I also noticed another 'fix' for all affected apps - revert libcairo2 to the version in testing, 1.0.4-2. The recent cairo upload might explain why the symptoms only popped up a few days ago. Cheers, Christopher Martin pgpXDNOQZU7U6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#377147: firefox: text rendering badly damaged
I made two errors in my reply to you. On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 03:20:55AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: I do have a $HOME/.fonts.conf, and I am attaching it. I didn't. Trying again. What happens if you run with the MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO environment variable set to 1 ? The problem goes away. The fonts are a look at little worse but at least I can read things. Thanks for the workaround! s/are a look at little/are looking a little/ Apparently I momentarily forgot how to speak English... -- G. Branden Robinson| You want a cornhole while you wait Free Software Developer| for your 3-way? [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- utterly innocent sentence in http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | southwestern Ohio ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM fonts.dtd fontconfig !-- add Bitstream fonts to the list when looking for Times/Helvetica/Courier -- match target=pattern test name=familystringTimes/string/test edit name=family mode=append binding=same stringBitstream Vera Serif/string /edit /match match target=pattern test name=familystringHelvetica/string/test edit name=family mode=append binding=same stringBitstream Vera Sans/string /edit /match match target=pattern test name=familystringCourier/string/test edit name=family mode=append binding=same stringBitstream Vera Sans Mono/string /edit /match !-- use autohinting and no subpixel on Nimbus fonts -- match target=font test name=familystringNimbus Roman No9 L/string/test edit name=rgba mode=assignconstnone/const/edit edit name=autohint mode=assignbooltrue/bool/edit /match match target=font test name=familystringNimbus Sans L/string/test edit name=rgba mode=assignconstnone/const/edit edit name=autohint mode=assignbooltrue/bool/edit /match match target=font test name=familystringNimbus Mono L/string/test edit name=rgba mode=assignconstnone/const/edit edit name=autohint mode=assignbooltrue/bool/edit /match !-- add fixed back into the mix -- !-- selectfont acceptfont pattern patelt name=familystringfixed/string/patelt /pattern /acceptfont /selectfont -- /fontconfig signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#377147: firefox: text rendering badly damaged
forwarded 377147 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6617 reassign 377147 libcairo merge 377147 376714 severity 376714 important thanks On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 03:20:55AM -0400, Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How is your no-AA being configured ? Through about:config ? Through .fonts.conf ? I'm not sure how to determine whether I'm configuring AA through about:config. Maybe you could tell me? I do have a $HOME/.fonts.conf, and I am attaching it. What happens if you run with the MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO environment variable set to 1 ? The problem goes away. The fonts are a look at little worse but at least I can read things. Thanks for the workaround! I knew I'd already heard about something similar. The problem is in cairo (used by pangocairo in firefox) Reassigning and merging accordingly. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#377147: firefox: text rendering badly damaged
Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-1 Severity: important Rendering of text seems to be damaged beyond usability in the latest version of Firefox. Mousing over the text makes it appear, but it goes away again after a redraw. Only the first word in a sentence appears, up to the first occurrence of whitespace. *** N.B.: This also affects menus, like the bookmark menu. *** *** It is NOT confined to the browser window. *** Here's a screenshot: http://redwald.deadbeast.net/tmp/firefox-horked.png -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-powerpc-smp Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages firefox depends on: ii debianutils 2.16.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii fontconfig 2.3.2-7 generic font configuration library ii libatk1.0-0 1.11.4-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.2.0-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-7 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype62.2.1-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-7GCC support library ii libglib2.0-02.10.3-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.18-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libidl0 0.8.6-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file ii libjpeg62 6b-13The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.1 PNG library - runtime ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-62:1.0.0-7X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1.1.5.2-5X cursor management library ii libxext61:1.0.0-4X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:3.0.1.2-4 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-5X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama11:1.0.1-4X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxp6 1:1.0.0-1X Printing Extension (Xprint) clie ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-4 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 1:1.0.0-5X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii psmisc 22.2-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-12 compression library - runtime firefox recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
