[SOLVED] Dzen2 artifacts since last update

Hello,
I'm having a problem with Dzen2: since the last update to version 0.8.5-4 it shows artifacts (or whatever else it is; not looking good at any rate)
I have two dzens: one is always on showing unread mail, battery, date and time:
(notice vertical lines after "5" and "twenty";
the other I can turn on and off and it shows various diagnostics:
(notice "black holes", that's one of the versions of the error),
(black and white rectangles, that's another one).
I haven't changed anything in the feeding scripts since long before the las update.
This is the small one (the first screenshot): http://pokazywarka.pl/dl3tnj/;
this is the big one (the second and third screenshots): http://pokazywarka.pl/se2h2x-2/.
Could anyone help me, please?
Last edited by caminoix (2010-01-27 09:58:06)

The issue comes up on my computer too but enabling the XFT option in the dzen2's configuration fixes the problem. The package linked does this by default.
But I'm interested in this bug because I don't think this is dzen2's bug. It worked very nicely until the update of X.
In fact I can reproduce this with the stock dzen2 from the community repo:
dzen2 -bg '#404000' -fg '#777777' -h 16 -sa c -e '' -ta l -fn '-*-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' -tw 1350
and the first line of the input:
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaa tal aaaaaaaaa
the garbage begins after the "tal" part until the next "aaa..." section. Interestingly changing the "tal" string makes the problem go away.
I'm using an ATI card with the open source drivers, not sure it matters though.
Anyways, as I've said using Xft makes the problem go away, but still it shouldn't work this way.

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