Squares instead of fonts, Was: (no subject)
D Canfield
canfield at uindy.edu
Thu Jan 19 13:31:59 UTC 2006
Scott Talbot wrote:
> Hello list.
>
> I've been seeing this for a while, but didn't mess with it. Seems that
> xmms and mplayer have a problem with fonts. In xmms the file list and
> all settings, and any sub-window from here show little squares instead
> of characters. mplayer is nearly identical
>
> Is no one else seeing this? I was disregarding this as mplayer is
> clearly not a fedora product, but 2 upgrades of xmms (with FC5 in the
> name, have not put any dent in this, so maybe I'm alone?
>
>
> Scott
>
>
I've seen this same behavior with various older (and external) apps,
even if I rebuild them from source. In particular, pptpconfig does
this to me. One thing that I believe xmms and pptpconfig have in
commong is gtk1. Could this be the issue?
DC
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