broken Garnome installation...

[Eric Moncrieff <eric+garnome styx org>]

Hello All,

I've installed garnome, with the suggested fix to get GTK+ to compile,
from the 0.22.0 tarball, and it all worked great.  I ran the output of
pango-querymodules into  the appropriate place,  which got rid  of the
completely blank error  message which killed X when  clicked, and I've
altered  the paths in  ~/garnome/etc/gconf/2/path to  not point  to my
root  directory.  However,  when  I  try to  launch  gnome, using  the
suggested script (which ought to  be unchanged from 0.21.2, no?) I see
a very strange thing.

It's as though all of my fonts  are less than one pixel high, and very
very wide...So none  of the menus are readable, but  they all fill the
width of the  screen, (i.e. I right click on  the background, which is
black, and it suddenly turns white because the menu *completely fills*
it.  Furthermore, none  of the icons in nautilus  have readable names,
because of the strange font problems.  The whole thing is unusable.

I encountered  something like this in  0.21.1 or .0,  and the solution
was to run fc-cache as  root.  However, this doesn't correct the issue
now.   I've looked at  ~/garnome/etc/fonts/fonts.conf, and  it's sane;
I've tried fc-cache --force, and it hasn't worked. 

Anyone have any thoughts? 

Thanks for all the fun work. 

Eric
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