Weird font problem in Gnome 2.20 in the shutdown and logoff dialog

alexmatos · 2007-10-16 16:29:54

I've made a video that shows the problem:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid … 1864044650

Note that the bold message changes its size after a couple of seconds. Is anybody experiencing it? Does it look like a bug?

p.s.: sorry for the lousy video quality.

Last edited by alexmatos (2007-10-16 17:14:42)

wonder · 2007-10-16 16:42:09

yes... i have it. don't know how to solve this

alexmatos · 2007-10-17 03:41:46

Is anybody using Gnome 2.20 NOT having this problem?

wonder · 2007-10-17 12:54:56

this isn't a bug. i created a new user and from there the font doesn't change

mrunion · 2007-10-17 12:58:18

I don't have this problem and I've upgraded to Gnome 2.20.

alexmatos · 2007-10-17 16:07:08

That's pretty weird, then. Maybe I should clean some config files, but which ones? Any clues?

EDITED:
I found out a few things:

1) I think the problem is in the folder ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/interface (or its equivalent gconf-editor key, if you wish).

2) When I change the main font to Sans 10 the problem is "solved" (and I've found it's due to the fact that Sans 10 is the font that appears to me before changing to the font I actually chose, so If you think better, you'll see that maybe the problem is still happening, but you can't see it since the font is changing from Sans 10 to Sans 10).

mrunion, is your font Sans 10? And wonder, what happens if you try to change the font of your new user to anything other than Sans 10?

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wonder · 2007-10-17 18:26:51

mrunion, is your font Sans 10? And wonder, what happens if you try to change the font of your new user to anything other than Sans 10?

Nothing... the "bug" doesn't appear

mrunion · 2007-10-17 18:32:03

All my fonts are Tahoma 8. But if I get a chance later this evening I'll try and test that for you.

alexmatos · 2007-10-22 20:27:26

I did a fresh install today (not because of this) and the problem persists. What is going on?!

kensai · 2007-10-22 20:46:40

That sure is strange, I have never seen such problem before. And as wonder said, his problem disappears when creating a new user, so that leads to the conclusion that this is .configs related, yet a new install doesn't change this behavior, did your fresh install was made preserving the previous /home directory?

Mikko777 · 2007-10-22 20:54:26

lol I noticed this today too! Although it happened so fast that i first thought i was just tired ^^

So, things i did tonite:

-Played around with ion3
-messed around with openbox fonts
-almost installed cairo-cleartype but cancelled

Maybe something broke.

alexmatos · 2007-10-26 11:27:22

kensai wrote:

That sure is strange, I have never seen such problem before. And as wonder said, his problem disappears when creating a new user, so that leads to the conclusion that this is .configs related, yet a new install doesn't change this behavior, did your fresh install was made preserving the previous /home directory?

I didn't preserve the /home dir, that's why it's so wierd!

Mikko777 wrote:

-messed around with openbox fonts

I'm using Openbox also. Maybe it's an OB related problem. Is anybody using Openbox + Gnome not having this problem?

mrunion · 2007-10-26 12:51:26

He, here's something weird -- I never saw this problem UNTIL I installed Compiz (from danimoths stuff, if it matters). NOW that happens when I run compiz (or run it and exit it). But it DOESN'T happen if I boot up and never run Compiz. I have Compiz use the GTK decorator if that matters as well.

Does that help?

pain of salvation · 2007-10-26 13:41:48

I have the same problem with a clean install of gnome 2.20. I am using compiz too.

alexmatos · 2007-10-26 16:09:28

This is a bug of the Arch shutdown/restart dialog IMO. Should someone take a look at this?

kensai · 2007-10-26 16:27:11

alexmatos wrote:

This is a bug of the Arch shutdown/restart dialog IMO. Should someone take a look at this?

Developers don't lurk the forums that much, so you should file a bug for this, if it already hasn't been done.

alexmatos · 2007-10-26 18:47:49

kensai wrote:

alexmatos wrote:
This is a bug of the Arch shutdown/restart dialog IMO. Should someone take a look at this?
Developers don't lurk the forums that much, so you should file a bug for this, if it already hasn't been done.

So do you guys think this worths a bug fileing?

alexmatos · 2007-10-29 21:45:01

I want you guys to help me find out what's wrong. Is anybody using Metacity having this problem? I think it's a problem with using another window managers. I'm having some issues with Openbox's fonts since the upgrade to Gnome 2.20. Example: if I define 10pt in Gnome and 10pt of the same face in Openbox, they get different sizes (Openbox gets smaller). Could this two problems be related? I'm using 96 in the Gnome dpi config.

cucullus · 2007-10-30 11:32:42

I can confirm. I use metacity and don't have compiz[-fusion] intalled. My font is Verdana 7, 96 dpi.

alexmatos · 2007-10-30 11:57:38

cucullus wrote:

I can confirm. I use metacity and don't have compiz[-fusion] intalled. My font is Verdana 7, 96 dpi.

Sorry, I couldn't understand. Do you have the problem or not?

Phrodo_00 · 2007-10-30 13:04:13

it happens to me too, DejaVu Sans 9.5 running compiz.

cucullus · 2007-10-31 14:27:13

alexmatos wrote:

Sorry, I couldn't understand. Do you have the problem or not?

Sorry for my english. I have this issue.

alexmatos · 2007-11-08 10:34:29

For those who are interested, I've filed a bug and it has already been assigned to one of the developers:

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8560

ddoan · 2008-02-29 08:02:04

Hi,

sorry for reanimating this old problem, but hey... I've got this bug, too!! ;-)

It doesn't matter what font I'm using... I tried "Sans" and "Tahoma": When I set them to a font size of 8, the dialog font of the shutdown window resizes and also the complete dialog... it's not that easy to click the buttons with this bug ;-)

The issue exists with 2 different computers... one desktop pc and the other a laptop. Both use Gnome... the laptop with Metacity, the other with Compiz.

Thanks for the bug report...

Arch Linux

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Weird font problem in Gnome 2.20 in the shutdown and logoff dialog

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