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my64

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From: France

Registered: 2007-12-30

Posts: 88

Unreadable fonts in dialog window swiftfox or flock

When opening a file browser window under swiftfox or flock, I get unreadable fonts (all caracters are squared, almost all the same).
This looks to happen under Switffox and Flock, however it works with firefox.
Note that I have Arch 64 bits, with 32 bits libs installed for some applications.
Any hint where to search ?

Last edited by my64 (2008-01-28 21:03:49)

Janax

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From: Iowa

Registered: 2007-05-21

Posts: 86

Re: Unreadable fonts in dialog window swiftfox or flock

What you want to do is type about:config in the URL, then dialog in the filter window.  Change the entry print.use_native_file_dialog to false.  That's worked for me for the 2.x swiftfox versions.

I have not been able to get the 3.x betas to work, however, and the font problem is all over in those versions - menus and the main window both.  It makes the browser unusable to me.  I think that the whole font problem relates to the pango (lib32-pango) library somehow, but haven't had the time to track it down to know for sure.

Hope that you can at least the 2.x version working - good luck!

my64

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From: France

Registered: 2007-12-30

Posts: 88

Re: Unreadable fonts in dialog window swiftfox or flock

My "print.use_native_file_dialog" is already set to false in my swiftfox config.
I tried, true or false,  no effect

my64

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From: France

Registered: 2007-12-30

Posts: 88

Re: Unreadable fonts in dialog window swiftfox or flock

ok,
I switched back to firefox wihch is an ELF64bits and file browsing worked fine again.
The difference is that my  swiftfox or Flock were ELF32bits version.
- Is there any swiftfox for 64 bits ?
- swiftfox installation binary overwrite firefox, this is bad..

It seems that GTK browser used by switftfox/ELF32   does not like to load "im-cedilla"/ELF64  lib and others from GTK2.0. This makes sense.
So, may be I should also install a GTK2.0/ELF32, but I did not found it in AUR, and I don't want to overwrite the GTK/ELF64.
Any hint ?

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Unreadable fonts in dialog window swiftfox or flock

For 32-bit:  /var/abs/community/lib32/lib32-gtk2

my64

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From: France

Registered: 2007-12-30

Posts: 88

Re: Unreadable fonts in dialog window swiftfox or flock

Janax,
Are you sure the path to GTK2 is correct in bin32-swiftfox-athlon64 2.0.0.11-1  ?
It looks to search his libs in /usr/lib....; instead of /opt/lib32/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/