font problem?

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at moongroup.com
Mon Mar 31 16:16:36 CEST 2003


On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:07:59 -0500 (EST)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Jack Coates wrote:
> > I just upgraded from Mandrake 9.0 to Mandrake 9.1, and it hosed
> > XFce's fonts...
> >
> > http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/screwy-shot.png
> 
> you sure that's not just a gtk theming problem, where your background
> color is the same as your font color?
> 

Ok, if I must guess at the reason I would say it is caused by the
upgrade of XFree86 from 4.2 to 4.3. XFree86 4.3 includes Xft2 and I
think this may break xfce3 when it is compiled with Xft support.

As I said, it's just a guess,

	Jasper




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