Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:17:24 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, cokane@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: fonts have gone insane Message-ID: <478C7A24.2030104@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <478C305E.6050900@paradise.net.nz> References: <478BA1CE.7020101@gmail.com> <a01628140801141146y2e0c04c4k826a33f3eef2c2c0@mail.gmail.com> <478BCD2A.4040405@gmail.com> <478C1522.6010108@FreeBSD.org> <478C305E.6050900@paradise.net.nz>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Coleman Kane wrote: >> >> >> I'm in the same boat here. It would seem that all of the fonts in my >> GTK/GNOME apps are messed up now and I am left with replacements of >> some >> core fonts. Seems to have coincided with some recent portupgrade, >> but I >> can't figure out what has done it. I recently upgraded >> x11-toolkits/gtk20 but the original poster mentions xfce... >> >> Trying to rebuild/install fontconfig... >> >> I tried the above removal of the /var/db/fontconfig directory which >> helped out none. >> >> > I ran into this with the Gnome 2.20 upgrade. I believe it has > something to do with anti-aliased fonts being used instead of bitmap > ones. I *think* it is to do with Xorg 7.3 rather than Gnome.... but > there is Gnome stuff you can do that sorts it if Gnome is your > window manager (see thread "Fonts, windows too large after 2.20 > upgrade" in freebsd-gnome list). > > For other window managers I'm not sure what you need to do (there > must be some xorg.conf magic - surely???). Maybe ask on the Xorg > mailing lists? (and enlighten us when you discover the answer!) After redoing a buildworld on sources that have been updated by new stuff committed during th portupgrade -afk the problem has cleared it self (I need to undo some changes I made to my settings) - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools. http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly. "Free software != Free beer" Blog: http://www.flosoft-systems.com/flosoft_systems_community/blogs/aryeh/index.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHjHojjRvRjGmHRgQRArTyAKCATu8yT0cbR1P9+A2Z/tBlAAswdACdH+lM pg4mJcRA6HtuM2Q8IleV/mg= =ZhMA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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