Re: Font mangling in GTK apps
Re: Font mangling in GTK apps
- Subject: Re: Font mangling in GTK apps
- From: Fred Dushin <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:47:21 -0400
Excellent. Thanks for the info, and great work on X11.
-Fred
On Sep 17, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
Yeah, this has been reported a few times in the past, and I don't
remember the exact cause... but I think it was a buggy version of
freetype or fontconfig or something like that (which was installed
via fink or macports)
On Sep 17, 2008, at 05:47, Fred Dushin wrote:
Well, I *think* it's in GTK apps.
First, let me say that I've not been tracking this list very
closely, and while I've done a quick search on trac, I didn't do an
exhaustive search to see if this has been reported (scanned the 6
pages of a search for "font"). I've been subscribed to this list
for a while, though, and I haven't seen anything relevant in
subject lines, so I'm guessing it's something strange on my machine.
Second, I should say that I've had this problem for a long time --
at least since 10.5.0, with the X server that came with that kit,
and every version of xquartz I've used since (I have not installed
every version, but quite a few, and I'm up to 2.3.1 currently).
The problem I've had has been in wireshark and gnucash, 2 GTK
applications. Generally, what happens is that when I launch the
application, the fonts are not rendered properly on the screen.
Here is a screenshot taken from wireshark, for example:
http://fred.dushin.net/tmp/MangledFont.png
If I re-size the window, the fonts restore themselves properly, so
I can work around the issue (though I will say that some widgets in
gnucash tend to "toggle" this behavior, which can be annoying).
These GTK apps are build from macports, FWIW, under a fresh and
synced installation.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone else has seen this behavior, or
if it's "just me".
Other perhaps relevant information:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook2,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB21.00A5.B07
SMC Version: 1.13f3
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
System Software Overview:
System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.5 (9F33)
Kernel Version: Darwin 9.5.0
The 10.5.0 installation was an upgrade from 10.4.9, I think, and
I've upgraded each minor release from 10.5.0 to 10.5.5.
Thanks!
Fred
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