[gentoo-user] broken fonts in vmware-player, realplayer

[gentoo-user] broken fonts in vmware-player, realplayer

[Michael George]

I recently upgraded my kernel and a few other packages on my system.
Now when I start up vmware-player, I don't get any fonts -- just little
blocks.  I noticed the same thing when I start realplayer.  Both seem to
work fine, but it's rather hard to work with them when I cannot see the
fonts 1n the windows.

I have an amd64 system and have asked over there and someone suggested
perhaps my gtk font paths are broken.  I run CTWM rather than Gnome or
KDE (if that makes a difference...) and I'm not sure where they would be
broken that I need to fix them.  In the past they have "just worked".

I ran kcontrol and checked to see if its fonts seem to be appearing
right, and they display fine.  I found a reference when searching online
to gconftool-2, but I'm not sure what settings/directories I should look
at in there...

So far, I am not finding anything useful through Google.  If anyone has
any references that I should or could read to help me with this, I'm all
ears.

I'm posting this to the gentoo-user and ctwm lists, as both the distro
and window manager would be involved...

Some package versions that might be relevant:
gtk+: both 1.2.10-r12 and 2.10.6 are installed
gtk+extra: 2.1.1
gtk-engines: 2.8.2
gtk-engines-xfce: 2.2.8-r1
emul-linux-x86-gtklibs: 10.0.r1
gentoo-sources (kernel): 2.6.19-r5
ctwm: 3.7

I recently upgraded a bunch of the emul-linux-x86 libraries.
I have tried to remove and re-emerge vmware-player to no avail.

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Re: [gentoo-user] broken fonts in vmware-player, realplayer

[Michael George]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 02:12:40PM -0500, Michael George wrote:
> I recently upgraded my kernel and a few other packages on my system.
> Now when I start up vmware-player, I don't get any fonts -- just little
> blocks.  I noticed the same thing when I start realplayer.  Both seem to
> work fine, but it's rather hard to work with them when I cannot see the
> fonts 1n the windows.
> 
> I have an amd64 system and have asked over there and someone suggested
> perhaps my gtk font paths are broken.  I run CTWM rather than Gnome or
> KDE (if that makes a difference...) and I'm not sure where they would be
> broken that I need to fix them.  In the past they have "just worked".
> 
> I ran kcontrol and checked to see if its fonts seem to be appearing
> right, and they display fine.  I found a reference when searching online
> to gconftool-2, but I'm not sure what settings/directories I should look
> at in there...
> 
> So far, I am not finding anything useful through Google.  If anyone has
> any references that I should or could read to help me with this, I'm all
> ears.
> 
> I'm posting this to the gentoo-user and ctwm lists, as both the distro
> and window manager would be involved...
> 
> Some package versions that might be relevant:
> gtk+: both 1.2.10-r12 and 2.10.6 are installed
> gtk+extra: 2.1.1
> gtk-engines: 2.8.2
> gtk-engines-xfce: 2.2.8-r1
> emul-linux-x86-gtklibs: 10.0.r1
> gentoo-sources (kernel): 2.6.19-r5
> ctwm: 3.7
> 
> I recently upgraded a bunch of the emul-linux-x86 libraries.
> I have tried to remove and re-emerge vmware-player to no avail.

I user on the gentoo-amd64 list lead me to the answer.  I had upgraded
emul-linux-x86-gtklibs to 10.0-r1, but the qt3 USE flag was set in
make.conf.  I turned off that flag and rebuild the library and all is
well!

Gentoo users are awesome!

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