RE: gdmgreeter Text Labels Not Appearing

["Adams, Wayne" <wwa engin umich edu>]

> When trying to use gdmgreeter(v2.6.0.8) on Solaris 9 with a GNOME 2.8 
> environment (www.blastwave.org) the gui image is displayed correctly 
> but NO text.  I've tried a number of themes including "circles" with 
> no luck.  Any ideas ??

>>>Sounds like your Xserver might be having problems finding fonts.  Is
your fontconfig set properly?  >>>I suspect the problem isn't with GDM,
but with your system font configuration.
>>>Brian

I first suspected that too; however, after setting a  "xset q" in gdm's
".../Init/Default" script I can see that the Xserver (i.e. Xsun) is
using the same set of fonts that it's using when running GNOME 2.8.
gdmgreeter is just not displaying the text on the GUI login screen;
however, if you click, for example, on the "labeless" session icon on a
theme like "circles" everything in the box appears to being rendered
correctly.  Also when using gdmlogin everything appears fine.


--Wayne Adams
--University of Michigan
--wwa umich edu