Re: [Nautilus-list] Font problem

[Josh Barrow <josh eazel com>]

Iain,

What version of freetype are you using?  It is recommended that you use the
freetype2 rpms located at
developer.eazel.com/eazel-hacking/updates/freetype2.

Josh

Iain wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I've been having some font related problems with Nautilus recently.
> Basically, sometimes fonts appear
> and sometimes they don't.
>
> I've taken a few screenshots to help explain my problem better :)
>
> #1
> http://www.webtribe.net/i/iain/nautilus1.png
> Antialiased shows no text, but a grey box.
>
> #2
> http://www.webtribe.net/i/iain/nautilus2.png
> Not antialiased, still no text.
>
> #3
> http://www.webtribe.net/i/iain/nautilus6.png
> Not antialiased, and the text is back at different zoom levels.
> (On changing the font (from fixed to helvetica), I discovered that I could
> get text to appear
> at all non-antialiased zoom levels)
>
> #4
> http://www.webtribe.net/i/iain/nautilus5.png
> But still no text at any zoom level when anti-aliased
>
> #5
> http://www.webtribe.net/i/iain/nautilus3.png
> Chinese characters beside the themes, and it looks like the AA text
> descriptions are working.
> And the buttons are just black squares.
>
> #6
> http://www.webtribe.net/i/iain/nautilus4.png
> The buttons at the top are black again, but because I use a larger default
> theme font
> (I'm half blind and use an insanely stupid resolution :)) the word
> "Background" is cropped
> to fit into the button at the side.
>
> Also note the mystery black icon in nautilus5.png
>
> Any ideas?
> I'm currently planning on installing the fonts package from xf86 to see if
> something got corrupted
> somewhere along the way, but if anyone knows a solution, then I'd like to
> hear it :)
>
> iain
>
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