Strange openbox font problem

The fonts of openbox looks weird in different environments
In Gnome+Openbox
In only Openbox
Is this a bug?
Last edited by ro0x (2007-07-18 19:37:24)

I don't know what is wrong!
In the 2 desktops the configs are 96 dpi
(~) walala $ cat ~/.Xdefaults |grep Xft
Xft*dpi: 96

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Strange system font problem

Hello,
I have the following problem for 2 days now:
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/1462/bild1.png
I did not install anything. I tried to delete font caches but it did not help.
I re-installed the system but that did not change anything. After resetting the PRAM the problem was solved. At least for some hours, but now the problem appeared again.
When I do a reboot, strange white lines appear over the grey background and the Apple Logo, then the screen turns blue, the cursor consists of white lines too and nothing more happens. After several tries to reboot the Mac is running again, but the font problem still exists.
First I thought of a graphic card problem, but it seems that this font problem only concerns system prefernces and system applications.
I have no idea what to do now, so please help me.

Hi "Apfelkrautsalami"
Font caching information is stored on a per-user basis in
/private/var/folders
I have no idea if it'll help, but you could try this:
- Open a Terminal and do
*sudo rm -rf -- /private/var/folders/??*
- Restart your machine
(Note 1: The '--' prevents rm to think that folders like '-5' are options)
(Note 2: The '??' will match any two-letter directory. I didn't want to say '*')

[Solved] Strange font problem - after update.

Hello guys,
encountered a strange small font problem on sites with code wrappers like stackoverflow/blogs/jsfiddle. After update. took a look at my font setup all looks good.
I've also checked the settings for gtk2/3 and no problems there.
INFO:
Google-Chrome-Beta. [same thing]
Firefox [same thing]
/etc/vconsole.conf ->
KEYMAP=sv-latin1
FONT=ter-112n
.gtkrc-2.0->
gtk-theme-name="Clearlooks"
gtk-icon-theme-name="Faience"
gtk-font-name="Tewi 9"
gtk-cursor-theme-name="Adwaita"
gtk-cursor-theme-size=0
gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_BOTH
gtk-toolbar-icon-size=GTK_ICON_SIZE_LARGE_TOOLBAR
gtk-button-images=1
gtk-menu-images=1
gtk-enable-event-sounds=0
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=0
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle="hintfull"
gtk-xft-rgba="none"
/gtk-3.0/settings.ini->
gtk-theme-name=Clearlooks
gtk-icon-theme-name=Faience
gtk-font-name=Tewi 9
Any ideas on this problem would be greatfully appreciated.
http://imgur.com/MD7yPI2
Mod note: removed huge image -- WorMzy
Last edited by Learning (2015-05-22 21:55:07)

Update:
Tried reinstalling, change the fonts, remove all font clear the cache.
change, look up the settings, looked up size, tried monitor dpi.
checked all the config files for anything remotely related to this problem.
Had a quick look at the bug tracker for google-chrome-beta as well no reported
font problems as far as i can find.
Update2:
Tried adding custom.css to the browser not even that worked.
update3: [SOLVED]
So i solved the problem.
The problem was a faulty font that was stuck and used in the pre somehow.
Removed and added another to the list and somehow that worked.
recommendations - if anyone has this problem in the future.
open firefox and look in the font tab what is used. and remove that
or try to install a fixed one. that should work.
-Nothing has yielded any working results.
So any ideas at this point would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
-L
Last edited by Learning (2015-05-22 21:59:14)

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It's driving me nuts. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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..."I say strange, but it's one of my many fonts in the collection"...
Since it sounds like you know the name of the font, you could try to see if anything turns up with the command below, which searches through user preferences for a given string:<pre>defaults find "font name"</pre>A partial font name should be fine. Enter the command using "/Applications" > "Utilities" > "Terminal.app".
Also, the caches (associated with a user by the 'uid') don't appear to be cleared when an account is deleted. So if a new user is created and gets assigned a previously used 'uid', they may inherit the old cache files. For starters, try clearing out any file or folder whose name contains the user's 'uid', such as the "/Library/Caches/com.apple.IntlDataCache.###" file or the "/Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/###" folder belonging to the affected user. Then log out and back in. To determine the user's 'uid', try:<pre>id -u username</pre>

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Mail may be looking for a System font, one that you may have turned off or deleted. In 10.3.9, these are the fonts that belong in /System/Library/Fonts:
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Geneva.dfont
Helvetica.dfont
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LastResort.dfont
LucidaGrande.dfont
Monaco.dfont
Osaka.dfont
OsakaMono.dfont
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Times.dfont
ZapfDingbats.dfont
If you're missing any, you need to reinstall it. If you're using a font manager, you need to activate the System Fonts; and if you have all of these, it's possible one or more are corrupted, which you would then need to reinstall. Font Bool will not accurately report whether or not a font is corrupt.
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I'm having a problem with fonts in TextEdit. Some of the fonts in a particular font family are not available when I choose them either as a default font in the Preferences dialog, or as the active font in the Fonts panel. The unavailable fonts are listed, but when I select them nothing happens or the selection jumps to an entirely different font family.
The strange thing is that these fonts in question work perfectly in other OS X applications that use the Fonts panel, such as pages.
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I don't have a solution (and I haven't noticed contradictions like yours), but I have noticed other font problems with TextEdit 1.6 in 10.6 and 10.6.1 (the version that was there when I finished installing 10.6).
If I paste in a selection from, say, a webpage and the font size is not one listed by default in its Font Menu, the size does not display, even if I use Command + or -, until it becomes one of the listed sizes. But it never displays in the top right data entry box.
Another anomaly is that pasting text that has an embedded link retains both the link and the special formatting even when using Paste and Match Style. It does not match style. If you apply Paste Style makes, that makes no difference, either. I have to either type it instead of pasting it or paste it in a Text Only file, then copy or cut it out and paste it in the RTF document. I tried selecting Edit > Substitutions > Smart Copy/Paste but apparently that refers to putting spaces between words when pasting in (I could not find it explained in TextEdit Help). I tried turning off Smart Links, but while it works with URLs, it has no effect on linked text (I am talking specifically about the kind of linkage found in the "Genre" line at IMDb.com, as an example).

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i have this musical creation program on my computer called Sibelius First 6: I was wondering if that was the cause.I don't use it much and am on the trial version, so I could uninstall the program if it would fix this strange issue.
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cereskit,
If you are really using 10.6.4, updating your OS may solve the problem.
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I already did the following:
- disabling/enabling the fonts
- entering the save mode (cleaning the cache)
- cleaning the cache using a third party program (cannot recall the name)
- reinstalling OS X
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A little update.
Often when I boot my iMac and open for example Adobe Illustrator not every font (original and newly installed) show up in program's font list, but sometimes all fonts do appear.
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My 'Fonts' dialog won't let me delete any fonts from either the "Favorites" or "Recently Used" collections. Furthermore, it's difficult to select a font from either list. And I can't use the arrow keys to navigate up/down the list, it will touch a couple of them, but it just alternates between them.
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I posted this message in the "Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard" discussion category. That is the OS I am using.
Why do you want to delete fonts from your lists?
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"Your Favorites" are the fonts that are used the most.
They are fonts that I added to that collection. It shouldn't matter how often I use them.
And "Most Recently Used" are exactly that.
Except several of them have not been used recently (depending on your definition of the term "recently").
What exactly is the error message, and does it only refer to Arial?
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Arial is used by Word.
Good to know. I never use MS Word, nor do I use Arial.
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Glitches in address fill-ins with nicknames; default font problem; plus other glitches in Thunderbird 31.3.0 and 31.4.0; can I roll back to an earlier version?

I am unhappy with the recent upgrade to Thunderbird 31.3.0 and now 31.4.0. My bottom line question is whether I can roll back to the previous version, which was working well for me.
The problems I have encountered include:
1. I used to be able to enter a single letter in many cases in the address field, and the autocomplete would fill in the entry that I always use with that single letter. That function has been lost, as has auto fill-in based on the nicknames I have entered in my Address Book. I see there is another thread on this problem (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1036962), but no satisfactory answer so far. Entering a single letter now pulls up completely unrelated address entries that may not even have that letter as part of the name, address or nickname for that unrelated address. I have created new nicknames to try to adapt to this problem, but even these new nicknames no longer work with the 31.4.0 upgrade yesterday, forcing me to create yet more complex and hard-to-remember nicknames to pull up my frequent addressees. This is all very frustrating to me, as I depend on speed and ease when creating messages.
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3. While still on the subject of addresses, personally I see no reason why the address and subject fields should now be colored blue by default rather than appearing as blank, white fields. I far prefer the old look. And I suspect that changing from the blue color to a nice, clean, white field takes time and computer resources that slow things down.
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Thank you, Zenos. I tried rolling back to v31.2.0, since I had not encountered problems prior to December. However, that didn't help. So I followed your valuable suggestion to revert to v24.6; that seems to have done the trick.
I would like to mark this problem as "Solved" -- the rollback seems to have worked. However, since my original post was a complex mix of things, before I do that, should I post the individual problem sets that I had noted (address fields/nicknames problems -- numbers 1-3; default font problem -- number 4; attachment reminder problem -- number 5) as separate issues which have not been solved?
Do you know if these various issues are being worked on? I'm glad to have the temporary fix of rolling back to an earlier version, but I'd like to get back on the current update schedule at some point if and when these problems have been corrected.
Thank you again!

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The combo should fix your problem. As always have a back-up in case you have to revert.
The Font update came out to fix the problem in 10.6.7
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1377
It should be rolled into the Combo-Update:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399

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Dear Kurt,
in bigger companies thinks come slow :-) Actually we are switching from 10.4.11 with Quark 6.52 and FontReserve to 10.6.8 with Adobe CS5 and FontBook.
And as you may guess we're running directly into the HelveticaNeue problem.
We cleaned up the system fonts so that only the absolutly needed are in /Sys/Lib/Fonts/ and all other fonts (from MacOS and our own) are in /Lib/Fonts/ where they are in folders for better handling.
The number of additional fonts were radically stripped down to the REALLY needed (about 70 fonts with their families).
We removed the protected fonts and replaced Helvetica, HelveticaNeue, Times, Symbol and ZapfDingbats with PS Type1 fonts.
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The second is that if something goes wrong and all fonts are switched to active we have a font conflict and the possibility that the dfont is used in documents.
I think I have read all (ok, many :-) of your posts about the Helvetica problem in 10.6 as well as your really great document about font handling in OS X.
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