Re: [Evolution] Strange editing bug in 3.20

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2016-07-11 at 00:39 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-07-11 at 00:28 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I'm seeing a weird effect in 3.20: a strange flashing of the
> > composer
> > window when I delete text. My usual fixed-width font switches to
> > something else and then immediately back again. It appears to be a
> > variable-width font but the switch is so fast it's hard to be sure.
> > It's hard to explain but very disconcerting as the text and cursor
> > jump
> > around with each font change (since they are different widths).
> >
> > Does anyone else see this? I'm using Evo 3.30.3 in Fedora 24 under
> > KDE,
> > so possibly it's a side-effect of some font choice elsewhere.
>
> No, nothing for me. I'm using Gnome and the fonts are set to being
> the
> same as other applications (11pt Sans Regular - which is an alias for
> DejaVu Sans Book I think).

I turned off the "Use the same fonts as other applications" option
under Mail Preferences, and the problem went away. Now I just have
composer fonts that are bigger than I like. Some more experimenting
required.

poc