[NBLUG/talk] Weird GNOME error after upgrading KDE

[Lincoln Peters]

On Sunday 06 August 2006 14:15, 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

I hadn't made the connection between GTK/GNOME and Pango, but I do recall that 
GTK+ uses Pango, so the explanation makes sense.

>
> 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.

# apt-get install libcairo2

seemed to do the trick.  Thanks.


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