Re: [gtkextra] No text is drawn

["Adrian E. Feiguin" <afeiguin uci edu>]

Sorry for the late appearance in the discussion but I just switched jobs 
and moved to Santa Barbara, and I'm back to work. I committed a couple 
of lines of code that are supoused to fix this. can anybody try it out? 
Thank you!
<ADRIAN>

Christoph Finke wrote:

> I had the same Problem,
> its a bug in gtkextra/gtkfontps.c (or perhaps deeper in the 
> pango-library)
>
> Line 467
>  if (!g_object_class_find_property(klass, "gtk-xft-dpi")) {
>    dpi = 96.;
>  } else {
>    /* Read the settings. */
>    gint int_dpi;
>    g_object_get(G_OBJECT(settings),
>             "gtk-xft-dpi", &int_dpi,
>         NULL);
>    dpi = int_dpi / PANGO_SCALE;
>  }
>
> g_object_get returns 0.
>
> I have put the following line in ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (outside of  any style 
> block):
> gtk-xft-dpi=100000
> which solved the Problem.
>
> Christoph Finke
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <romildo uber com br>
> To: "Owen Taylor" <otaylor redhat com>
> Cc: <scigraphica-gtkextra lists sourceforge net>; <gtk-list gnome org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 2:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [gtkextra] No text is drawn
>
>
> > On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 08:54:14AM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> >
> > > [...]
> > > GTK+ and Xft will use in order:
> > >
> > >  - Xft/DPI XSETTING
> > >  - Xft.dpi X resource
> > >  - DPI from the screen
> >
> >
> > I do not set DisplaySize in the Xorg configuration file,
> > and from /var/log/Xorg.0.log I have
> >
> > (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1400 x 1050
> > (--) NVIDIA(0): Display dimensions: (320, 240) mm
> > (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (111, 111)
> >
> > which is correct for my monitor. Therefore the DPI from
> > the screen seems to be ok. Nontheless the test programs
> > from gtk+extra has a text size very very small and
> > unreadable size.
> >
> > Also setting the DPI in the X resource file does not
> > change this situation. I have tried setting it with
> >
> > Xft.dpi: 100
> >
> > in my ~/.Xresources file. Other applications, such as
> > the gnome-panel, see this setting and changes the
> > font size accordingly, but the gtk+extra test
> > programs still draw their text in the same very
> > small and unreadable font size.
> >
> > Regarding the first option (Xft/DPI XSETTING), I do
> > not know how to set it, so that it can be tried. Maybe
> > someone can help me with it.
> >
> > > So if gnome-settings-daemon isn't there to provide the DPI, it will
> > > *still* have a DPI. GTK+ works perfectly fine in non-GNOME 
> > > environments.
> >
> >
> > I still does not understand why those test programs
> > from gtk+extra do use such a very small font size.
> > What else can I do to get it right?
> >
> > Romildo
> >
> >
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