Fonts going funky in GTK apps

[Adam Jackson]

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_.

- ajax
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