Fonts going funky in GTK apps

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Mon May 4 17:33:54 UTC 2009


On Mon, 04 May 2009 11:29:37 -0400
Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 15:48 +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> > 2009/5/4 Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu>:
> > > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 03:38:36PM +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> > >> I'm using KDE on (soon-to-be)F11, and I've been noticing that
> > >> occasionally, the fonts go funky in Firefox and/or
> > >> OpenOffice.Org. It's hard to describe, but basically some
> > >> characters get replaced by screwed-up-looking box things.
> > >> Generally, restarting the app in question works.
> > >
> > > Intel graphics?
> > >
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495323
> > 
> > Yes, I have Intel graphics, and that looks like exactly my problem
> > -- thanks!
> 
> I really, really wish that I had any reliable reproducer for this
> problem.  None of my Intel machines seem to trigger it.
> 
> If anyone can come up with, say, a specific web page that introduces
> this corruption every time, I'd be _thrilled_.

I can't say for sure if this is the case, but I have seen it much more
often after I have used flash. (I typically keep flash disabled in
midori and only enable it when I specifically want it). 

Just tried loading a yourtube video here and I'm not getting the
corruption yet, so it's clearly not a 100% thing. ;( 

> - ajax

kevin
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