[Bug 197163] Re: Mathematica renders fonts incorrectly in Hardy

2008-05-15 Thread drkirkby
Where did you find the XLIB_SKIP_ARBG_VISUAL variable documented? Is that Mathematica specific, Linux specific, or some general Unix environment variable like PATH, HOME and TERM? -- Mathematica renders fonts incorrectly in Hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197163 You received this bug notifi

[Bug 197163] Re: Mathematica renders fonts incorrectly in Hardy

2008-05-10 Thread drkirkby
This looks to me like a Qt issue. In many ways it is safer if Mathematica used only its own libraries, and ignored any later ones which might be present on the operating system. But often there are advantages in using later versions - like on Solaris one cant get Mathematica working on an Intel CPU

[Bug 197163] Re: Mathematica renders fonts incorrectly in Hardy

2008-05-06 Thread drkirkby
I've put a few notes to work around some issues with Matheamatica on Solaris. It is probable that most are not an issue on linux, but this issue is affecting Solaris too, as someone else pointed out. http://www.g8wrb.org/mathematica/ I get the feeling mma is less well tested on Solaris than Wind