Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with X fonts when restarting from hibernate-to-disk

[YoYo Siska]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 07:26:58PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I'm not sure where to look.  I've recently started having font
> problems when restarting my PC from hibernate-to-disk.  Here are the
> symptoms...
> * I hibernate my home desktop machine when not using it
> * when I restart from hibernate, the following problems *SOMETIMES* occur
> * existing GUI windows are OK
> * launching new programs or dialogues (YES/NO, Apply/Cancel, etc) seems
>   to have zero-size fonts
> * shutting down X and restarting it solves the problem, but if I have to
>   go through that, it's almost as cumbersome as "sudo /usr/sbin/poff"
>   and booting fresh
>
>   I'm attaching a partial screen-capture of an existing gnumeric
> spreadsheet and a new one launched after waking up from hibernation.
> The tracker.gnumeric spreadsheet that was opened before hibernation is
> OK.  The Book1.gnumeric spreadsheet was opened after waking up from
> hibernate.  Note the missing "File Edit View etc" text menus.  The
> location and formula areas are very thin, compared to the same areas in
> tracker.gnumeric.  This happens to Opera, AbiWord, etc.  I did this
> partial screencapture with Gimp.  I left it open before hibernating.
> The radiobuttons and icons were OK in the screencapture dialogue, but
> the fonts were screwed up on the dialogue.  I managed to do the
> screencapture from memory of which button was which.

Might be that something happens to X's DPI settings during the
suspend/resume...
You can try to comaper the outputs of 
xdpyinfo | egrep "dimensions|resolution"
and maybe 
xrandr
befor and after the suspend.

Also all the applications you metion are GTK V(well, I'm not sure about
opera...), does the same happen to qt, qk, plain xlib applications also?

yoyo