Re: No text after GTK2.2 upgrade

[Erik Simonsen <erik pinksheets com>]

Thanks for the quick reply.


fc-list shows a goatload of fonts.

But from your hints I figured some things out:

I had set GDK_USE_XFT for antialiased fonts, but when I doublechecked
the ./configure for pango, I saw that it hadn't compiled the Xft backend
this time, where it had in the past.  The problem was that when I
installed fcpackage2, I installed it under /usr/local, but pkg-config
didn't know about /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig.  Changing PKG_CONFIG_PATH
fixed that.

Next, It wasn't able to compile.  That was because I had upgraded to
Freetype 2.1.3, and apparently pango doesn't like it.  Downgrading to
2.0.9 enabled me to compile pango 1.2.  

After this, running any GTK+2 app would error out with something like
"Could not load font file for Nimbus Sans L", which is not specified in
any .gtkrc or within those applications.  Recompiling gtk2.2 fixed that
problem.

Now I can run those applications, but there seem to be a number of bugs
in gtktreeview that I think will make me have to roll back to 2.0.x.  I
will track them down and post them on bugzilla with a testcase when I
get a chance.

Thanks again foir your help

Erik





On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 12:44, Owen Taylor wrote:
> Erik Simonsen <erik pinksheets com> writes:
>
> > After upgrading to gtk2.2, no text (Including gtklabels and gtktreeview
> > cells) in any of my GTK apps is displayed anymore.  I've confirmed that
> > this happens with the gtk-demo program as well.  I think the problem is
> > with Pango 1.2, since text appears after rolling back to an older
> > version of pango.  One strange thing is that I CAN see the text when
> > using pango 1.2 if I view from my windows box using Hummingbird.  I
> > don't know if it's relevant, but I installed all of the fontconfig 2.1
> > package since I saw it mentioned in the pango docs, but that didn't
> > help.  I'm running redhat 7.3 with a 2.4.18-10 kernel on an i386 box. 
> > Compiled with gcc 3.2
> >
> > I'm guessing this isn't a common problem because I haven't seen anyone
> > else comment on it, but I don't think I've installed anything unusual,
> > either.
>
>  - Does the 'fc-list' command show fonts?
>  - Are the fonts you see on the Hummingbird X server antialiased?
>  - Are you using the standard Red Hat 7.3 X server?
>  - Did you recompile pango-1.2 after installing fontconfig?
>
> Regards,
>                                         Own
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