SOLVED (Debugging Text / Font Problem)

[Bill Trenker]

Bill Trenker wrote:

> I'm not getting any text showing up anywhere in xfce4

I solved the missing text problem. I had 2 different installs of Pango on my system.  I removed the older one and sure enough xfce4 works just like that.

I'm sorry to have troubled the developers with this.  To be honest, one user had already reported this solution on the xfce forum.  I guess I was stuck on the fact that some of my other GTK2 apps worked.  But when I dug in and investigated further I found that the working GTK2 apps were loading in the newer Pango libs, so no wonder they worked.  (I had an older version of Pango in /usr/local/libs and the correct one in /usr/libs so it wasn't just a version conflict but a duplication problem on top of it.)

Thank you for putting up with my request for assistance.  I will report my solution on the xfce general users list and on the forum so that others know that this is closed and maybe someone else will benefit from my investigation.

Kind regards,
Bill