From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GBMPi-0001vZ-2S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:06:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7B23UHn005545; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:03:30 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (thunder.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.71]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7B1xurk029707 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:59:57 GMT Received: from [192.168.2.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 836D64BE3A for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:59:49 +1000 (EST) Subject: [gentoo-user] X font problem From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:29:36 +0930 Message-Id: <1155261576.6503.10.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2b75c341-4738-4dda-9070-3c24726eadf4 X-Archives-Hash: 43928c622870df44e538a01daf22919b Hi all, when I play around with Desktop > Preferences > Font in Gnome, I get some strange behaviour. Many fonts I select come up with strange characters for tabs, followed by the real tab space. For example <-- here I see a funny character, then the "<" about 2cm away. The funny character can be: courier light dotted square courier-new square terminal filled in rectangle lucida-typewriter light dotted square I also saw an 'a' for one font. This isn't just fixed with fonts either. I have a whole host of fonts installed, and for some I see the character, some I don't. But then some, like courier 10 Pitch, appear fine. I checked my xorg logs, and I can't see any helpful messages - no font issues at least. What now? This is a bit ugly and annoying obviously! What can I look at next to see where the problem is coming from? TIA, -- Iain Buchanan Never tell people how to do things. Tell them WHAT to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -- Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list