[gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution

[gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution

[Iain Buchanan]

Hi,

I'm getting a strange font problem in evolution and firefox - evolution
shows square boxes when it should be showing tabs, and firefox shows
square boxes in java applets when it should be showing spaces.

Both applications show the tab / space as well, but there's these little
boxes all over the place.

I've tried installing a few fonts, or looking for use flags that might
affect it, but nothing worked - I'm completely stumped.

Can anyone help me solve this?  What would you suggest? xorg.conf? use
flags?

thanks,
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Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution

[Mick]

On 13/06/06, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting a strange font problem in evolution and firefox - evolution
> shows square boxes when it should be showing tabs, and firefox shows
> square boxes in java applets when it should be showing spaces.
>
> Both applications show the tab / space as well, but there's these little
> boxes all over the place.
>
> I've tried installing a few fonts, or looking for use flags that might
> affect it, but nothing worked - I'm completely stumped.
>
> Can anyone help me solve this?  What would you suggest? xorg.conf? use
> flags?

Not sure it helps, but I occasionally see the same effect with the
square boxes in Konqueror (I don't have Java on my systems).  Changing
encoding manually solves it.  So I assume that it is related to some
language code meta tag in the html/css code which Konqueror does not
like.  Opera and FF seem to be less fussy about it.
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Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution

[Iain Buchanan]

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:13 +0000, Mick wrote:
> On 13/06/06, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm getting a strange font problem in evolution and firefox - evolution
> > shows square boxes when it should be showing tabs, and firefox shows
> > square boxes in java applets when it should be showing spaces.
> >

> Not sure it helps, but I occasionally see the same effect with the
> square boxes in Konqueror (I don't have Java on my systems).  Changing
> encoding manually solves it.  So I assume that it is related to some
> language code meta tag in the html/css code which Konqueror does not
> like.  Opera and FF seem to be less fussy about it.

Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately different encodings didn't make
much difference.  However, I did notice this when I started firefox from
the command line:

$ firefox
No running windows found
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type
FontStruct

what on earth does that mean?  I tried installing
font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi and font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi but
that didn't seem to do anything.  I think I'm barking up the wrong
tree...
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Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution

[Mick]

On 14/06/06, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately different encodings didn't make
> much difference.  However, I did notice this when I started firefox from
> the command line:
>
> $ firefox
> No running windows found
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type
> FontStruct
>
> what on earth does that mean?  I tried installing
> font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi and font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi but
> that didn't seem to do anything.  I think I'm barking up the wrong
> tree...

If changing the encoding did not help, it is worth checking your font
file permissions.  Have a look at this thread:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1427510 and the link it
provides at the bottom:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1618075#1618075

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Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution

[Iain Buchanan]

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 22:21 +0000, Mick wrote:
> On 14/06/06, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately different encodings didn't make
> > much difference.  However, I did notice this when I started firefox from
> > the command line:
> >
> > $ firefox
> > No running windows found
> > Warning: Cannot convert string
> > "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type
> > FontStruct
> >
> > what on earth does that mean?  I tried installing
> > font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi and font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi but
> > that didn't seem to do anything.  I think I'm barking up the wrong
> > tree...
> 
> If changing the encoding did not help, it is worth checking your font
> file permissions.  Have a look at this thread:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1427510 and the link it
> provides at the bottom:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1618075#1618075


I looked there, but all I could find was some permissions problems, none
of which I had...

any other tips?

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[gentoo-user] Re: really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution

[Mick]

Sorry, I've run out of ideas. :-(

If setting your encoding at UTF8 doesn't work, and your permissions
are good, then someone more clued up than me may be kind enough to
make a suggestion.

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Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution

[Richard Fish]

On 6/13/06, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> $ firefox
> No running windows found
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type
> FontStruct
>
> what on earth does that mean?

It means that firefox was looking for this font at 140dpi, and couldn't find it.

Assuming that this is actually important, do you have any ~/.gtk*
files?  If so, do they specify any fonts?  (grep -i font ~/.gtk*)

What dpi is your X server running at?  (xdpyinfo | grep -C 5 resolution)

Finally, what does "xset -q" report for FontPath.

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Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution

[Iain Buchanan]

Hi,

I managed to get rid of the evolution font boxes, by specifying courier
10 pitch in the gnome font dialog, instead of courier new, for
fixed-width fonts.

However, courier 10-pitch looks a bit ugly... What's wrong with courier
new, and why does it show boxes for spaces?

the firefox font box problem is still there too:

On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 09:30 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 6/13/06, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> > $ firefox
> > No running windows found
> > Warning: Cannot convert string
> > "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type
> > FontStruct
> >
> > what on earth does that mean?
> 
> It means that firefox was looking for this font at 140dpi, and couldn't find it.
> 
> Assuming that this is actually important,

I am assuming it _is_ important, because firefox shows ugly squares
everywhere in between words.

>  do you have any ~/.gtk*
> files?  If so, do they specify any fonts?  (grep -i font ~/.gtk*)

no, nothing.

> What dpi is your X server running at?  (xdpyinfo | grep -C 5 resolution)

$o | grep -C 5 resolution
number of screens:    1

screen #0:
  print screen:    no
  dimensions:    1680x1050 pixels (569x356 millimeters)
  resolution:    75x75 dots per inch
  depths (7):    24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32
  root window id:    0x44
  depth of root window:    24 planes
  number of colormaps:    minimum 1, maximum 1
  default colormap:    0x20

> Finally, what does "xset -q" report for FontPath.

Font Path:
  /usr/share/fonts/misc,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/TTF,/usr/share/fonts/Type1,/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/lib/fonts/

I tried installing font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi and
font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi, I tried playing around with font
settings in firefox and gnome, and I still get these ugly boxes when
viewing java applets in firefox...

any more suggestions?

thanks a lot for the help - this is really annoying.  I'm starting to
see it on other machines too - not just my laptop...
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Re: [gentoo-user] really annoying boxes in firefox and evolution

[Iain Buchanan]

I just discovered something else: when I click in a text box in java in
firefox, I get this message on the terminal:

Warning:
    Name: textfield
    Class: XmTextField
    Character '\61' not supported in font.  Discarded.

what does that mean? is it related?

thanks,
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