Re: [Fwd: Bug in font rendering in XFree86 4.0 - 4.0.1?] -- Debugging/UI Inspection tool?

[Miles Lane <miles speakeasy org>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> Miles Lane <miles@speakeasy.org> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am attempting to track down an XFree86 4.0.x bug that
> > causes the text in the GMC desktop icons to be misjustified.
> > I'd like a method of determining which fonts are being displayed.
> > Is there any client application for Gnome that will basically
> > inspect a client window and tell me it's properties (something
> > like Sun's xscope would be ideal, but I've failed to compile it
> > with XFree86 4.0.1 installed under Linux for X86 (lots of
> > definition errors to do with PEX and so on).
> >
> > If necessary, I can recompile GMC, but I'd really rather not.
> > I am currently running the latest rev. available through
> > Helixcode.
> 
> Though it is not the right way to go about debugging this
> particular problem (I'm actually planning to debug this one today) -
> for debugging X traffic, I've had good luck with xmon:

Thanks!

So, can you reproduce the problem?  One developer at XFree86 told
me he wasn't able to.

I'll be glad to send you my XFree86 logfile if you need it.

All the best,

	Miles