X11 X Cursor on GTK apps

I get the standard X cursor on GTK apps where it should be the normal arrow cursor (i.e. on file selection dialogs, buttons, etc.). I don't know what triggered the change, but it is a bit irritating. Any clues how to change it? (A possible solution I wouldn't mind would be to change the X cursor with the arrow cursor)
BTW. I use xmonad directly, i.e. no gnome or kde session.

Right, I had seen this page (I should have pointed it out in the first post) and tried with a couple of themes, but the issue persisted and sometimes I had issues with cursor scaling in my multi-monitor setup. I expect I could create a new theme overwriting the cross cursor, but probably there are easier solutions.

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[solved]Fontconfig problems (Ugly GTK Apps)

So I just installed the LCD filter patched packages on my new comp, but I'm trying to determine why some of my GTK apps still look really bad..
Firefox looks great, but pretty much any other app looks like crap, the fonts are barely readable. Below is my font configuration..
My .fonts.conf
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<fontconfig>
<match target="font" >
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba"><const>rgb</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintslight</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"><const>lcddefault</const></edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
/etc/fonts/conf.d directory:
# ls -l /etc/fonts/conf.d
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Mar 3 16:01 10-autohint.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-autohint.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Mar 3 16:01 10-lcd-filter.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-lcd-filter.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Mar 3 16:01 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Mar 3 16:01 29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf -> ../conf.avail/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Mar 3 16:01 45-latin.conf -> ../conf.avail/45-latin.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Mar 3 16:01 49-sansserif.conf -> ../conf.avail/49-sansserif.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Mar 3 16:02 50-user.conf -> ../conf.avail/50-user.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Mar 3 16:02 60-latin.conf -> ../conf.avail/60-latin.conf
I feel like I'm missing one, but I've attempted to link all the configurations from conf.avail and it still doesn't look good. Anyone?
Edit: Heres a screenshot:
Last edited by brenix (2010-03-04 04:39:30)

Hey there.
When I first installed arch, x11, xmonad, and gtk, the fonts looked like crap on my screen too. I ran over a ~/.Xdefaults setup that included:
! Xft settings ---------------------------------------------------------------
Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.antialias: true
Xft.rgba: rgb
Xft.hinting: true
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
After restarting X, the ugly fonts were gone. I also switched the fonts used in gtk (using lxappearance) to the microsoft cleartype fonts (yeah yeah freedom hater). Don't forget you have to source ~/.Xdefaults from ~/.xinitrc like so:
# make sure the X Defaults gets loaded
xrdb ~/.Xdefaults
Also note, lxappearance is a great app for changing gtk+ themes.

Connection lost and slow gtk apps

Hi,
I have a wireless connection (zd1211 chip). I am always connected to the router, but when it losts internet connection (telecom italia sucks), gtk apps (not qt) freeze for about 20 seconds before they start.(seems like a connection timed out) I had ubuntu before and I hadn't this problem...
Suggestion?

Cornholio wrote:Hi,
I have a wireless connection (zd1211 chip). I am always connected to the router, but when it losts internet connection (telecom italia sucks), gtk apps (not qt) freeze for about 20 seconds before they start.(seems like a connection timed out) I had ubuntu before and I hadn't this problem...
Suggestion?
*Which* GTK apps? I suspect not all of them. Do you have mounted filesystems on NFS or something similar?
-- Thomas Adam

Can't start GTK apps on Kdemod

Hi,
I'm very new to Arch, but I've managed to install some things I need so far. I did a FTP install and then installed x and kdemod, fixed screen resolution, installed nvidia driver, configured alsa. I think I want to stay on Arch, I really like it's speed and the package manager pacman.
Anyway I can't start GTK apps, currently I've Firefox, Seamonkey and Gparted installed but when I click on their shortcuts in K menu nothing happens, when I try to start in terminal I get
gparted
No protocol specified
(gparted:7468): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
I have gtk2,glib2,gtkmm and kdemod-gtk-qt-engine installed.

lo enabled?
Don't know how to check.
hostname in /etc/hosts?
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
# End of file
Last edited by Boreas (2007-11-02 05:55:59)

GTK apps in Qt Environment -- Does it really make a difference?

Whenever I read around about running GTK apps in KDE, I get a lot of horror stories about how needing to load GTK libraries in the Qt environment will degrade my system performance and bog down my desktop experience. After spending a lot of time in two pretty popular GTK apps (Firefox & Gimp), and monitoring my desktop performance, I've certainly not found anything noticable (other than that they look ugly as sin). Furthermore, I keep a system monitoring widget on my desktop, and it doesn't seem to make a lick of difference on my system resources. Are all the warnings about running GTK in Qt simply horror stories? Has anyone actually noticed a difference from running GTK apps in Qt (or the other way around for that matter)?

axel668 wrote:no, I've always used GTK apps in KDE (Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, ...) and never had problems. And there's a great article in the wiki about theming: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Un … plications
That's a great little wiki page which I just visited, used, and now love. Thank you for sharing!

X apps (especially gtk apps) "freeze" while fluxbox keeps working

HI Everyone,
I'm trying to understand if this issue Ive been experienceing for the last several weeks (months?) is related to the "redrawing" and "freezing" issues I've been reading about with KDE.
What I experience is the gui application failing to redraw. The window "freezes", i.e. stops updating. If I switch desktops, and then switch back, whatever was drawn on the other desktop is still showing inside the window outline of the "frozen" app. The window decorations render correctly and the WM in general continues to function.
Firefox and thunderbird seem particularly vulnerable to this syndrome. I've also seen Transmission and gVim be affected. In short gtk apps seem to be mostly what are freezing.
I also typically run quite a few xterms. These will generally not exhibit the graphical redraw problem, but it seems this issue is getting worse, because I'm now seeing xterm commands failing to complete because of what seems to be saturated CPUs. In general I'm able to bring an xterm to the forground over a "frozen" app and it will still function.
I will often keep xosview open. When this freeze-up occurrs, xosview will still be running and indicating that 1 or 2 of the quad-core2 are pegged at 100%.
The config n brief:
quad-core2 x86_64 intel motherboard w/ 8G RAM and Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics
kernel26 2.6.35.4-1
xorg-server 1.8.1.902-1
fluxbox 1.1.1-1 (therefore no compiz)
I sometimes seem to hear intense disk activity, and a sync command will delay in completing during these events.
I run mdadm RAID1 mirror on all partitions, including swap. Additionally I recently added a second pair of drives that are mirrored, formated ext4, and mounted as /home, all other filesystems are ext3.
Is anyone else running fluxbox, or other WMs besides KDE, seeing these types of X app freeze-up?
Are those having issues in KDE experiencing these same kind of graphic rendering delays? That is, do some apps freeze while other apps and the WM continue to function? Are the freezes associated with GTK apps?
Thank You! for any confirmation, or denial, that this has anything to do with the KDE freeze-ups, or any illuminating info you are able to provide...
android

Well, it's getting worse and worse.
I've pacman-Syu several times in hopes some update would fix things, but instead it just gets worse.
I did find this morning entries in dmesg that look like ext4 journalling has something to do with it:
dmesg output:
<snip...snip>
INFO: task jbd2/md4-8:1579 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
jbd2/md4-8 D 0000000000000000 0 1579 2 0x00000000
ffff88022250bd20 0000000000000046 ffff88022250bd90 ffffffff810467d9
0000000000014f40 0000000000014f40 ffff88022250bfd8 ffff88022250bfd8
ffff88022250bfd8 ffff880222791bc0 ffff88022250bfd8 0000000000014f40
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810467d9>] ? load_balance+0xf9/0x870
[<ffffffff81071b6b>] ? prepare_to_wait+0x5b/0x90
[<ffffffffa02a40be>] jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0x1be/0x16a0 [jbd2]
[<ffffffff81043045>] ? finish_task_switch+0x45/0xc0
[<ffffffff8136fe71>] ? schedule+0x301/0x7f0
[<ffffffff81062b76>] ? lock_timer_base.clone.26+0x36/0x70
[<ffffffff810718d0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
[<ffffffffa02aa4a2>] kjournald2+0xb2/0x210 [jbd2]
[<ffffffff810718d0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
[<ffffffffa02aa3f0>] ? kjournald2+0x0/0x210 [jbd2]
[<ffffffff8107133e>] kthread+0x8e/0xa0
[<ffffffff8100aca4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[<ffffffff810712b0>] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0
[<ffffffff8100aca0>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
INFO: task thunderbird-bin:1939 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
thunderbird-b D 0000000000000000 0 1939 1935 0x00000000
ffff88021de51ad8 0000000000000082 ffff88021de51a38 ffffffff00000000
0000000000014f40 0000000000014f40 ffff88021de51fd8 ffff88021de51fd8
ffff88021de51fd8 ffff8802224a3e70 ffff88021de51fd8 0000000000014f40
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa02a1404>] start_this_handle.clone.16+0x274/0x510 [jbd2]
[<ffffffff81134ae8>] ? poll_freewait+0x48/0xb0
[<ffffffff810718d0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
[<ffffffff81134b50>] ? __pollwait+0x0/0xf0
[<ffffffffa02a1758>] jbd2_journal_start+0xb8/0x100 [jbd2]
[<ffffffffa03d72c9>] ext4_journal_start_sb+0xb9/0x130 [ext4]
[<ffffffff81134c40>] ? pollwake+0x0/0x60
[<ffffffffa03c6535>] ext4_dirty_inode+0x25/0x60 [ext4]
[<ffffffff81145a86>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x36/0x170
[<ffffffff81139c0d>] touch_atime+0x12d/0x170
[<ffffffff810de6f0>] generic_file_aio_read+0x5a0/0x710
[<ffffffff81123492>] do_sync_read+0xd2/0x110
[<ffffffff8137196d>] ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x22d/0x310
[<ffffffff811a2331>] ? security_file_permission+0x11/0x20
[<ffffffff81123c33>] vfs_read+0xb3/0x190
[<ffffffff81123d5c>] sys_read+0x4c/0x80
[<ffffffff81009e82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
INFO: task firefox:13634 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
firefox D 0000000000000000 0 13634 1881 0x00000000
ffff8802070ed978 0000000000000082 0000000000014f40 0000000300000000
0000000000014f40 0000000000014f40 ffff8802070edfd8 ffff8802070edfd8
ffff8802070edfd8 ffff8801f2319bc0 ffff8802070edfd8 0000000000014f40
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8114c290>] ? sync_buffer+0x0/0x50
[<ffffffff813703ce>] io_schedule+0x6e/0xb0
[<ffffffff8114c2cb>] sync_buffer+0x3b/0x50
[<ffffffff81370ac2>] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x52/0xb0
[<ffffffff81008846>] ? __switch_to+0x236/0x2e0
[<ffffffff8114c290>] ? sync_buffer+0x0/0x50
[<ffffffff81370b93>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit_lock+0x73/0x90
[<ffffffff81071910>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x40
[<ffffffffa02a21b9>] ? __jbd2_journal_file_buffer+0xc9/0x200 [jbd2]
[<ffffffff8114c3fe>] __lock_buffer+0x2e/0x30
[<ffffffffa02a31d9>] do_get_write_access+0x569/0x6a0 [jbd2]
[<ffffffff8114dc4f>] ? __getblk+0x1f/0x260
[<ffffffffa02a350c>] jbd2_journal_get_write_access+0x2c/0x50 [jbd2]
[<ffffffffa03e33f3>] __ext4_journal_get_write_access+0x33/0x80 [ext4]
[<ffffffffa03bc6c7>] ext4_new_inode+0x337/0x1120 [ext4]
[<ffffffffa03d72c9>] ? ext4_journal_start_sb+0xb9/0x130 [ext4]
[<ffffffffa03ca100>] ext4_create+0xc0/0x150 [ext4]
[<ffffffff8112d62e>] ? generic_permission+0x1e/0xc0
[<ffffffff8112e9eb>] vfs_create+0xab/0x130
[<ffffffff811313cf>] do_last+0x65f/0x740
[<ffffffff8113169d>] do_filp_open+0x1ed/0x680
[<ffffffff8113cc74>] ? alloc_fd+0xf4/0x150
[<ffffffff81122fe4>] do_sys_open+0x64/0x130
[<ffffffff811230cb>] sys_open+0x1b/0x20
[<ffffffff81009e82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
INFO: task ls:25494 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
ls D 0000000000000000 0 25494 7350 0x00000000
ffff8801af4d1cb8 0000000000000086 ffff8801af4d1fd8 0000000000000000
0000000000014f40 0000000000014f40 ffff8801af4d1fd8 ffff8801af4d1fd8
ffff8801af4d1fd8 ffff8802212a5a30 ffff8801af4d1fd8 0000000000014f40
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa02a1404>] start_this_handle.clone.16+0x274/0x510 [jbd2]
[<ffffffff810718d0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
[<ffffffffa02a1758>] jbd2_journal_start+0xb8/0x100 [jbd2]
[<ffffffff811343a4>] ? filldir+0x74/0xd0
[<ffffffffa03d72c9>] ext4_journal_start_sb+0xb9/0x130 [ext4]
[<ffffffffa03ba3ca>] ? call_filldir+0x9a/0xd0 [ext4]
[<ffffffffa03c6535>] ext4_dirty_inode+0x25/0x60 [ext4]
[<ffffffff81145a86>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x36/0x170
[<ffffffff81134330>] ? filldir+0x0/0xd0
[<ffffffff81139c0d>] touch_atime+0x12d/0x170
[<ffffffff81134330>] ? filldir+0x0/0xd0
[<ffffffff81134586>] vfs_readdir+0xc6/0xd0
[<ffffffff81134670>] sys_getdents+0x80/0xe0
[<ffffffff81373765>] ? page_fault+0x25/0x30
[<ffffffff81009e82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[johnea@vhost 03-Scale]$
However, during this >2minute lockup I looked at htop and it never indicated any of the 4 cpu's were over 3 or 4% , while xosview was showing 3 cpu's pegged at 100%.
The top task in htop was the running audio player, consuming at around 2%.
I've never seen a filesystem looking module at the top of top.
EDIT: man is my friend 8-) for htop: press 'K' to include kernel processes
Is there some way to get further insight into what is happening in the filesystem?
I'll try turning off journalling, maybe I need to convert that new partition to ext3 (a painfuil exercise).
Any help in discecting the CPU utilization is greatly appreciated!
Thanx!
android
Last edited by android (2010-09-09 19:36:55)

Ugly fonts in GTK apps on e17

Hello, I would want to know how I can change the fonts of GTK apps in e17, cause it looks really ugly compared with gnome...
This is my gnome desktop:
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/4176/pantallazomp4.png
And this my e17 desktop:
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/8717/2 … 400rm8.png
What can I do?
Greetings

Davigetto wrote:
Hello, I would want to know how I can change the fonts of GTK apps in e17, cause it looks really ugly compared with gnome...
This is my gnome desktop:
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/4176/pantallazomp4.png
And this my e17 desktop:
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/8717/2 … 400rm8.png
What can I do?
Greetings
can i be honest?!
imo the fonts in e17 are looking better than on the gnome-shot!
the fonts in gnome are blurred and letters like the "m" look like i'm squinting.
this is my /etc/fonts/local.conf:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>


<match target="pattern" name="family">
<test name="family" qual="any">
<string>Courier</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign">

<string>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</string>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign">
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
<edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
<edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
<edit name="hinting" mode="assign">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
<edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign">
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
</match>

<match target="font">
<test name="weight" compare="more">
<const>medium</const>
</test>
<edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>

<selectfont>
<rejectfont>
<pattern>
<patelt name="scalable">
<bool>false</bool>
</patelt>
</pattern>
</rejectfont>
</selectfont>
</fontconfig>
Last edited by iggy (2008-01-11 20:22:03)

Font corruption in GTK apps only

For a day or so now I have been seeing quite bad font corruption in GTK apps -- gtk-demo and Chromium both have this problem. QT apps are not affected. Forcing a font cache rebuild with `sudo fc-cache -rf` did not help the situation, and neither did reinstalling the affected fonts.
I did not upgrade or install any packages between the font rendering being fine, and it being corrupted (see the screenshot).
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/pF39tvm.png
Any ideas?
Last edited by cdown (2014-03-15 00:39:40)

I've seen corruption like this with a lot of cairo apps because the text to be rendered is sent to a buggy EXA driver. Does text look better if you turn off EXA acceleration?

[Resolved] Adobe-AIR and some other GTK apps crash

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: “oxygen-gtk”
HTMLLoader failed to initialize
How its work? oxygen-gtk are installed and works good with other gtk+ apps.
Help me pls.
Last edited by sylion (2011-04-17 21:22:37)

sylion wrote:problem resolved by installing this packages: lib32-libxslt, lib32-xcb-util
That was brilliant.
Thanks for sharing!
Juan
:wq

Problems with ligatures in firefox, gtk-apps

I have trouble with ligatures such as fl and fi in firefox and some different gtk-apps(pidgin for example). The problem is that the ligatures are rendered at a slightly different size and weight for some fonts.
I use libxft-lcd and freetype2-lcd. I don't really care for ligatures for on screen display, just a way to disable them altogether would work just fine.

I believe multicast means you are sending with a 255 address, like 198.162.10.255. Most routers will block multicasts, probably because multicasts cause a lot of traffic. (And of course multicasts will not work over the internet.)
UDP can send multicast or to a specific IP.
There is no problem with using more than one port.
If you listen on a UDP port then you get everything that fits in the buffer. So as long as packets aren't being dropped then you are getting everything.

[NEARLY SOLVED] font rendering in gtk apps problem after last upgrade

Im' using KDE, cairo-lcd, libxft-lcd... my fonts looked beautifully, but now they look horrible...
After last upgrade my gtk apps (firefox, thunderbird) render fonts in an ugly way...
I've tried to revert to pango 1.16.5 with no lucky result (the same problem)...
here is the log:
[2007-08-19 14:56] upgraded bind (9.4.1_P1-2 -> 9.4.1_P1-3)
[2007-08-19 14:56] upgraded glib2 (2.14.0-2 -> 2.14.0-3)
[2007-08-19 14:56] upgraded gnupg2 (2.0.5-1 -> 2.0.6-1)
[2007-08-19 14:57] upgraded gtk2 (2.10.14-2 -> 2.10.14-3)
[2007-08-19 14:57] upgraded kernel26ck (2.6.22.2.ck1-1 -> 2.6.22.3.ck1-1)
[2007-08-19 14:57] upgraded libdownload (1.1-1 -> 1.1-2)
[2007-08-19 14:57] upgraded libevent (1.3b-1 -> 1.3d-1)
[2007-08-19 14:57] upgraded libxtst (1.0.2-1 -> 1.0.3-1)
[2007-08-19 14:57] upgraded nvidia-ck (100.14.11-2 -> 100.14.11-3)
[2007-08-19 14:57] upgraded sip (4.6-1 -> 4.7-1)
[2007-08-19 14:57] upgraded pyqt (3.17.2-1 -> 3.17.3-1)
[2007-08-19 14:57] upgraded xf86-input-joystick (1.2.2-1 -> 1.2.3-1)
[2007-08-19 14:57] upgraded xorg-server-utils (1.0.4-1 -> 1.0.4-2)
[2007-08-19 14:57] upgraded xorg-utils (1.0.2-2 -> 1.0.2-4)
[2007-08-19 14:57] upgraded xorg-xdm (1.1.5-1 -> 1.1.6-1)
[2007-08-19 14:57] upgraded xterm (225-1 -> 229-1)
[2007-08-21 00:16] upgraded cpio (2.8-1 -> 2.9-1)
[2007-08-21 00:16] upgraded ed (0.5-3 -> 0.8-1)
[2007-08-21 00:16] upgraded initscripts (2007.08-1 -> 2007.08-2)
[2007-08-21 00:16] upgraded intltool (0.36.0-1 -> 0.36.1-1)
[2007-08-21 00:16] upgraded libarchive (2.2.5-1 -> 2.2.6-1)
[2007-08-21 00:16] upgraded man-pages (2.60-1 -> 2.64-1)
[2007-08-21 00:16] upgraded pciutils (2.2.4-2 -> 2.2.6-1)
[2007-08-21 00:16] upgraded readline (5.2-2 -> 5.2-3)
[2007-08-22 00:16] upgraded gdbm (1.8.3-3 -> 1.8.3-4)
[2007-08-22 00:17] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.22.3-1 -> 2.6.22.4-2)
[2007-08-22 00:17] upgraded lcms (1.16-1 -> 1.17-1)
[2007-08-22 00:17] upgraded libice (1.0.2-1 -> 1.0.4-1)
[2007-08-22 00:17] upgraded libxrender (0.9.2-1 -> 0.9.3-1)
[2007-08-22 00:17] upgraded procinfo (18-3 -> 19-1)
[2007-08-22 00:17] upgraded xorg-apps (1.0.2-4 -> 1.0.3-1)
[2007-08-22 23:49] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.22.4-2 -> 2.6.22.4-2.1)
[2007-08-22 23:49] upgraded librsvg (2.18.0-1 -> 2.18.1-1)
[2007-08-22 23:49] upgraded libxpm (3.5.6-1 -> 3.5.7-1)
[2007-08-22 23:49] upgraded libxaw (1.0.3-1 -> 1.0.4-1)
[2007-08-22 23:49] upgraded makedev (3.8.3-1 -> 3.23-1)
[2007-08-22 23:49] upgraded mcpp (2.6-1 -> 2.6.4-1)
[2007-08-22 23:49] upgraded naim (0.11.8.2.1-1 -> 0.11.8.3.1-1)
[2007-08-22 23:49] upgraded nfs-utils (1.0.12-2 -> 1.0.12-3)
[2007-08-22 23:49] upgraded pam (0.81-4 -> 0.99.8.1-3.1)
[2007-08-22 23:49] upgraded pango (1.16.5-1 -> 1.18.0-1)
[2007-08-22 23:49] upgraded sox (13.0.0-1 -> 13.0.0-2)
[2007-08-22 23:49] upgraded xorg-apps (1.0.3-1 -> 1.0.3-2)
[2007-08-22 23:49] upgraded xtrans (1.0.3-1 -> 1.0.4-1)
[2007-08-25 15:25] upgraded glibc (2.6.1-1 -> 2.6.1-2)
[2007-08-25 15:25] upgraded bftpd (1.9-1 -> 2.0-1)
[2007-08-25 15:25] upgraded gcc (4.2.1-3 -> 4.2.1-3.1)
[2007-08-25 15:25] upgraded gtk-doc (1.8-2 -> 1.8-3)
[2007-08-25 15:25] upgraded hal-info (0.20070618-1 -> 0.20070725-1)
[2007-08-25 15:25] upgraded perl-xml-simple (2.16-2 -> 2.18-1)
[2007-08-25 15:25] upgraded icon-naming-utils (0.8.2-2 -> 0.8.5-1)
[2007-08-25 15:26] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.22.4-2.1 -> 2.6.22.5-1)
[2007-08-25 15:27] upgraded kernel26ck (2.6.22.3.ck1-1 -> 2.6.22.5.ck1-1)
[2007-08-25 15:27] upgraded libgnomeprint (2.18.0-1 -> 2.18.1-1)
[2007-08-25 22:41] removed libgnomeprintui (2.18.0-1)
[2007-08-25 22:41] removed libgnomeprint (2.18.1-1)
i dunno what happened...
plz, someone help me
regards
Last edited by saneone (2007-08-30 18:11:32)

Bogart wrote:
I think the spacing now is correct, while before it was wrong. The only "problem" is that you got used to a bad font rendering, and now that it has changed for better you feel like it's different and don't like it.
Really, *most* of the problems that people find in Linux's fonts are just because they are used to the awful default fonts from Windows XP. Yes, people can even get used to those fonts and believe they're good!!! And when they see correct fonts in Linux they think they're bad...
What I would do is remove the MS TTF fonts. They work bad in Windows and worse in Linux. You should use Bitstream Vera or DejaVu if you want good quality fonts (especially in web pages).
But, then again, you might think that they look wrong just because you're not used to it... Oh, well...
What does correct font / correct spacing mean ?
IMO, that doesn't make any sense, because that's a totally subjective matter, like many other things in this world.
BTW, I love how fonts look in Windows, and I think that must be the only thing MS got right. Thus, I'm using ms fonts in linux, and a rendering as close as possible (no autohinting or antialiasing or subpixel rendering).
Similarly, I could find a woman beautiful that you would find ugly or just average. We are all different, and it's better that way

[SOLVED] Bug with GTK apps - Icons didn't render correctly

Hello.
I had been experiencing a strange behaviour of GTK apps at one of my arch systems lately - Icons didn't render correctly (screens attached).
It was not critical for work but frustrating enough. Especially in firefox (notice the half-rendered formulas).
It took me quite some time to figure out that this behaviour was caused by a line
"Xft.rgba:1 "
in my .Xdefaults config. After I commented it out the bug disappeared.
Qt apps were not affected by this.
Besides, on my second arch system it didn't cause any trouble.
So, I'm not sure whether it is a bug or not.
If it is, I'm not sure whether the problem is on my side, in package or upstream.
I've decided to post it just in case somebody experience something similar.
Libs versions are:
gtk2 2.24.22-1
gtk3 3.10.6-1
gtkmm 2.24.4-1
gtkmm3 3.10.0-1
The bug was also present in:
gtk2 2.24.20-1
gtk3 3.8.2-1
gtkmm 2.24.4-1
gtkmm3 3.8.1-1
Last edited by noooway (2013-12-21 07:00:17)

Thanks for the replies guys! For the record it's when I click a window in say lxterminal or pidgin it opens in firefox. I'll take a look through the links you posted and see if I can get it working!

X11 Yellow-Cursor Problem: Still Not Solved

Sorry for bringing this up again, but previous discussions (search for "X11 yellow cursor") are not active anymore, and the problem is unsolved. Let me briefly restate it for those who just joined in:
When displaying X11 windows from Linux machines on Intel Macs using Apple's X-server, the cursor turns into a hardly visible yellow something. Apparently, the cause is related to some wrong assumption about the Endianness.
There used to be a patch available (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060316124704289), but it was superseded by Apple's latest X11 update. The alternative solution suggested in that article (fiddling with the icon set on the Linux side) seems not work reliably - it doesn't for me.
So the present situation is very unsatisfactory. I just bought iMacs for my research group and myself. Having tested all the software we need for our daily work (which includes X11) on my Powerbook G4, I thought I would be on the safe side. Now, we've run into this Intel-specific bug, which annoyingly enough seems to be understood and solved, but Apple decided not to correct it in its latest X11 release.
I would highly appreciate any suggestions how to work around the problem for the time being. And I hope that somebody at Apple is reading this: The usefulness of Macs in a Linux/Unix-dominated scientific-computing environment critically depends on the availability of a reliable, stable X11 implementation.
Hans
iMac 24", PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Hi Hans,
but it was superseded by Apple's latest X11 update.
What do you mean by "superseded"? The patch
http://homepage.mac.com/lycestra/yellowcursor.patch
works well with the latest Apple's X11 source code.
Just download X11-0.46.4.tar.gz from
http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4.9.x86/
and put it in the same directory as yellowcursor.patch
Then you can apply the patch as follows:
$ tar zxvf X11-0.46.4.tar.gz
$ cd X11-0.46.4
$ patch -p1 < ../yellowcursor.patch
Now you can build everything by
$ cd xc
$ make World >& logfile
I guess it will take 20 to 30 minutes.
(build may be faster if you add some definitions into config/cf/host.def)
After the build, don't run "make install". Instead, just install the new Xquartz. Be sure to backup the origianl:
$ sudo mv /usr/X11R6/bin/Xquartz /usr/X11R6/bin/Xquartz.ORG
$ sudo cp -n programs/Xserver/Xquartz /usr/X11R6/bin/
You may compare the output of xdpyinfo and glxinfo before and after installing it. I have noticed any performance difference between the original and the new Xquartz.
PowerMacG4, PowerBookG4, iMac(C2D) Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Weird font issues transitioning from KDE to GTK apps

I'm having some strange issues happening between programs. Firefox and Pidgin, two GTK apps, can render kanji symbols fine. However, if I attempt the same in Konqueror or Konsole, they render as boxes.
Clearly I have the right fonts. What do I do to make Konqueror read them properly?

Justin, Try the following:
1) Quit all open applications.
2) If you have 'Helvetica Fractions', 'Times Phonetic' or 'Rougue Stencil-Type' fonts installed, delete them.
3) Delete your fonts caches with *Font Finagler*, FontNuke or OnyX +(or with whatever utility you normally use)+
*Font Finagler <http://homepage.mac.com/mdouma46/fontfinagler/> (this is the BEST utility)*
FontNuke <http://www.jamapi.com/pr/fn/>
OnyX <http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html>
4) Restart your Mac
5) Open your Font Book->Edit menu 'Select All' fonts - from the File menu select 'Validate Fonts'
from the Edit menu select 'Resolve Duplicates'
Good luck,
Tom

Improve gtk apps startup time.

Hi,
I wanted to do a little survery, on whether the "problem" that I have is specific to my computer, or this is how things should be.
Starting a gtk app (like gedit or rox) takes about 1-2 seconds on my system. I know for some people this is not much, but when I work I don't want to wait 2 seconds for app like gedit to start. It is not a matter of wasting time, rather a matter of changing focus. If I press win+r I would like to have rox to be open instantly, so I don't start to think about something else.
I know this is possible, as running uzbl is really fast. It seems like starting in the moment of issuing the command. I know it doesn't use lot of gtk, only some glib.
So in summary:
Do you think such situation is normal? Anyon knows how to decrease the delay?
Thanks,
Matt

flamelab wrote:Gedit is bloated ? Since when ?
I'm talking more the libraries/start up here then general usage.
What are you running them on? A *box, GNOME, KDE? I've always felt that gtk apps on KDE (for example) take a little longer. More my opinion than anything else. Which is understandable, considering the QT bias. Mostly, though, I'd say it comes down to the app. For maximum speed you want something that's small and uses very few (or always loaded) libraries.
NOTE: Gtk apps seem to start faster on my awesome setup than with GNOME. Do any of the GNOME processes (like gnome-settings-daemon) increase the load time? I feel as if they might.
EDIT: Yes, gVim is gtk.
ANOTHER EDIT: If you want a very fast, light, text editor then try mousepad.
Last edited by Crows (2009-08-17 17:12:56)

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