Strange disappearing text in gtk/gnome apps under KDE

lefou

Im using KDE 3.5.2 and many gtk/gnome apps (e.g. app-office/gnucash, media-video/dvdrip or app-misc/gramps) shows their text messages only partly. For text on dialogs, it appears after moving that dialog out of display and back. Text in controls like radio buttons apears, when moving the mouse over them. Mostly, only the first letters are shown. I have no clue, what the problem is, maybe some redraw problem or some timing issues conflicting with localization... maybe...

Has anybody had the same issue or can help? These apps are not really usable in that state.

rsa4046 · Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 1:15 am Post subject:

Are you using Modular X?

Edit: If you are, together with nvidia (as opposed to nv) driver, try changing to nv in xorg.conf, or downgrade to xorg-server to 1.0.2-r3 if you're using 1.0.99.2 or higher. See this thread.

lefou · Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 9:15 am Post subject:

Yes I'm using modular X but using the open source radeon dirver for my Laptop builtin Radeon 9000 Mobility.
The currently used xorg-server version is 1.0.2-r3.

Any other suggestions?

Chewi · Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 9:54 pm Post subject:

I've just started getting this too after a major system upgrade (410 packages!) but I'm using XFCE. I have a Radeon IGP 320M.

Chewi · Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 11:22 pm Post subject:

Are you using the artwiz (aleczapka) fonts by any chance? I've found that it only seems to affect some of those. Or perhaps some other very small font? All the artwiz fonts are very small.

lefou · Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 8:22 am Post subject:

The artwiz fonts are installed (media-fonts/artwiz-fonts-2.4), but I don't know, if they are used be these apps. I even don't exaclty know, how I can find out, which font are used by gtk+ apps under KDE. :roll:

Chewi · Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 8:28 am Post subject:

Usually that is set in the ~/.gtkrc* files but KDE might be using some trickery to override them. Can't remember. Haven't used KDE in forever. I doubt they are using artwiz if you haven't explicitly set them to though. Still, I'll try whatever font you're using.

lefou · Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 8:49 am Post subject:

So, as these ~/.gtkrc* file(s) are written and configured by KDE to use the same fonts as in KDE apps, I'm using *not* the artwiz fonts but Sans Serif.

So, this problem seems to be not related to a special font.

Any other ideas?

lefou · Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 8:59 am Post subject:

Ok, I fiddled a bit around with different fonts, font sizes and themes for GTK, but always the same issue, only the first word gets displayed, the rest appears only sometimes after size changing, redrawing,... as described above.

Chewi · Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 9:07 am Post subject:

Hmm. Perhaps our problems are unrelated. I've filed a bug report about it anyway.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132297

ld50 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Posts: 135

Who's using artiwiz fonts + gtk2 + cairo-1.0.4 should downgrade to cairo-1.0.2

see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6617

feel free to open an acount and add some comments on it

Chewi · Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 1:43 am Post subject:

Thanks for finding that out.

Already have an account there. I'll keep an eye on that.