Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:47:46 -0500 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: fonts have gone insane Message-ID: <47977DC2.7090907@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <478C7A24.2030104@gmail.com> References: <478BA1CE.7020101@gmail.com> <a01628140801141146y2e0c04c4k826a33f3eef2c2c0@mail.gmail.com> <478BCD2A.4040405@gmail.com> <478C1522.6010108@FreeBSD.org> <478C305E.6050900@paradise.net.nz> <478C7A24.2030104@gmail.com>
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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > 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) I also took your suggestion, and performed a csup and then rebuilt world/kernel and installed. Now my fonts seem to be back to normal in my GNOME apps. Any idea wtf caused this? I am guessing that these apps needed to communicate with gconfd in order to get their run-time-configured font information... maybe the changes in the tree prevented this from happening? -- Coleman Kane
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