Re: broken Garnome installation...

[Eric Moncrieff <eric+garnome styx org>]

>>>>> "D" == D D Brierton <darren dzr-web com> writes:

    D> On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 13:46, Eric Moncrieff wrote:
    >> 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.

    D> I have almost the same  problem: no fonts whatsoever in garnome
    D> 0.22.0. I say  almost the same because unlike  Eric, mine don't
    D> seem to be  of zero height and infinite  width, but rather zero
    D> height and width. 

After clearing  out a  stale ~/.gconf, (Which  reminds me:  Where does
Gnome2  put its  configuration  stuff?   I now  know  about at  least:
.gconf, .gnome,  .gnome2, .gnome_private, .gnome2_private...Where else
might there  be stale configuration  kicking around?)  I now  have the
problem exactly  as Darren  describes it.  It  is exclusively  a gnome
fonts problem;  I was  able to  open a gnome  terminal with  the right
mouse button,  which was cute with  no fonts; It was  about 100 pixels
wide, and 50 tall, and each  keypress woudl turn one pixel black; and,
typing blind, was able to open an xterm, which came up with reasonable
(normal X non-antialiased) font rendering.   From there, I was able to
launch Emacs and Phoenix, each  of which is compiled to use old-school
non-antialiased fonts, and they work fine.

My current #1  suspect is stale config...But the  trouble seems pretty
deep to be user-configurable...So I don't know.  I do know that I miss
subpixel font  rendering in Mozilla,  so any thoughts would  be deeply
appreciated. 

Thanks,
Eric
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