[gentoo-user] Corrupted font in gtk apps.

[gentoo-user] Corrupted font in gtk apps.

[Robert David]

Hi,

after recent update I encountered a problem with fonts. They looks ugly
and somehow corrupted. I see that in gtk apps I use, but maybe it is
also in other apps. 

I encountered it on two computers, both amd64. Before a week it was
fine.

I use gentoo stable.

I have fixed it partly by using Terminus font in all places where I
can. But this is only workaround. All other fonts (bitstream 75bpp,
dejavu) are corrupted.

I also logged a bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400909

I hope I'm not the only one who has this behavior.

Regards,
Robert

[gentoo-user] Re: Corrupted font in gtk apps.

[walt]

On 01/27/2012 04:23 AM, Robert David wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after recent update I encountered a problem with fonts. They looks ugly
> and somehow corrupted. I see that in gtk apps I use, but maybe it is
> also in other apps. 

I don't have that problem now but when I've seen it in the past it was
because Xorg wasn't finding all of the installed fonts for some reason.

There may be easier ways to diagnose the problem but I always use the
very old x11-apps/xfontsel, which at least will let you know for sure
which fonts Xorg is actually seeing, if not the reason for the problem.

 

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Corrupted font in gtk apps.

[Robert David]

It is wired, because I use KDE and qt apps are ok. I can change the
font for gtk but some are displayed wrong. 

I have tried to play with fontconfig but did not help at all. I have
also check the xorg.log and fount that there are included
only /usr/share/fonts/100dpi 75dpi and misc. Nothing more. But I see
the other fonts like DejaVu in gtk-chtheme or the kde gtk settup. So I
think it is not a problem of xorg font loading.

And is wired that it happen just week ago, and I did not change any
config since that, only do a regular merge of stable updates.

Regards,
Robert.

V Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:36:04 -0800
walt <w41ter@gmail.com> napsáno:

> On 01/27/2012 04:23 AM, Robert David wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > after recent update I encountered a problem with fonts. They looks
> > ugly and somehow corrupted. I see that in gtk apps I use, but maybe
> > it is also in other apps. 
> 
> I don't have that problem now but when I've seen it in the past it was
> because Xorg wasn't finding all of the installed fonts for some
> reason.
> 
> There may be easier ways to diagnose the problem but I always use the
> very old x11-apps/xfontsel, which at least will let you know for sure
> which fonts Xorg is actually seeing, if not the reason for the
> problem.
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 

[gentoo-user] Re: Corrupted font in gtk apps.

[walt]

On 01/29/2012 08:54 AM, Robert David wrote:

> I have
> also check the xorg.log and fount that there are included
> only /usr/share/fonts/100dpi 75dpi and misc. Nothing more.

That's not normal.  What does xset -q say about the Font Path?

You may be loading some fonts from ~/.fontconfig, too.  If you
delete or move that directory you may see different results when
you start X again.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Corrupted font in gtk apps.

[Robert David]

Thanks for your help, I have found the problem. After checking my
homedir I observed I have accidently uncommented some old xft stuff
in .Xdefaults file. That cause the problem. 

Robert. 



V Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:35:42 -0800
walt <w41ter@gmail.com> napsáno:

> On 01/29/2012 08:54 AM, Robert David wrote:
> 
> > I have
> > also check the xorg.log and fount that there are included
> > only /usr/share/fonts/100dpi 75dpi and misc. Nothing more.
> 
> That's not normal.  What does xset -q say about the Font Path?
> 
> You may be loading some fonts from ~/.fontconfig, too.  If you
> delete or move that directory you may see different results when
> you start X again.
> 
> 
>