font problem?

[Jack Coates]

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 06:16, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 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

somebody hand that man a pint, that's most likely it. I'll try
recompiling from src.rpm and see if it's fixed.

thanks,
-- 
Jack Coates
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