[NBLUG/talk] Weird GNOME error after upgrading KDE

David Rosenstrauch darose at darose.net
Sun Aug 6 19:50:08 PDT 2006


Liz Young wrote:
> On Saturday 05 August 2006 16:01, Lincoln Peters wrote:
>> 2. if I run a GTK+ or GNOME application from within KDE, several
>> words seem to be missing from every widget until I move the mouse
>> over them.
> 
> This? "Disappearing text in pango applications"
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=377755
> 
> The fix, libcairo 1.2.0-4 (it's not really a pango issue) was uploaded 
> to unstable a couple of days ago.
> Someone else fixed it by disabling/enabling AA fonts in kcontrol as a 
> workaround.
> 
> -Liz

FYI - there's more info in the upstream bug report, if you're curious:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7494

I also got hit with this, although on a different distro.

DR



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