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On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 02:12:40PM -0500, Michael George wrote: |
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> I recently upgraded my kernel and a few other packages on my system. |
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> Now when I start up vmware-player, I don't get any fonts -- just little |
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> blocks. I noticed the same thing when I start realplayer. Both seem to |
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> work fine, but it's rather hard to work with them when I cannot see the |
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> fonts 1n the windows. |
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> I have an amd64 system and have asked over there and someone suggested |
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> perhaps my gtk font paths are broken. I run CTWM rather than Gnome or |
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> KDE (if that makes a difference...) and I'm not sure where they would be |
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> broken that I need to fix them. In the past they have "just worked". |
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> I ran kcontrol and checked to see if its fonts seem to be appearing |
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> right, and they display fine. I found a reference when searching online |
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> to gconftool-2, but I'm not sure what settings/directories I should look |
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> at in there... |
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> |
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> So far, I am not finding anything useful through Google. If anyone has |
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> any references that I should or could read to help me with this, I'm all |
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> ears. |
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> |
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> I'm posting this to the gentoo-user and ctwm lists, as both the distro |
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> and window manager would be involved... |
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> |
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> Some package versions that might be relevant: |
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> gtk+: both 1.2.10-r12 and 2.10.6 are installed |
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> gtk+extra: 2.1.1 |
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> gtk-engines: 2.8.2 |
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> gtk-engines-xfce: 2.2.8-r1 |
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> emul-linux-x86-gtklibs: 10.0.r1 |
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> gentoo-sources (kernel): 2.6.19-r5 |
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> ctwm: 3.7 |
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> I recently upgraded a bunch of the emul-linux-x86 libraries. |
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> I have tried to remove and re-emerge vmware-player to no avail. |
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I user on the gentoo-amd64 list lead me to the answer. I had upgraded |
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emul-linux-x86-gtklibs to 10.0-r1, but the qt3 USE flag was set in |
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make.conf. I turned off that flag and rebuild the library and all is |
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well! |
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Gentoo users are awesome! |
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There are 10 kinds of people in this world: |
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Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. |
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