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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