On 4/12/08, Scytrin dai Kinthra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This problem occurs after dwm has started, if I switch out of X to a
>  virtual terminal and then switch back. All firefox instances, FF2 or
>  FF3, seem to lose all their fonts.
>  Spacing still occurs according to the application settings. The
>  underscores under the hotkeys for menu entries are still there. Images
>  on the page are unaffected. Nothing else seems odd. Just no letters
>  (that aren't in images) show up in firefox.

Sounds like the 3d engine going strange (fonts are usually rendered
using xrender, which is typically driven by a 3d engine). Do opengl
apps still work?

>
>  dwm is the only wm I currently have setup on my laptop so I have not
>  had the chance to see if it's a problem only occurring with dwm or
>  not. Nor do I regularly run any other gtk apps, so I don't know if
>  it's firefox or gtk. I'll be running through a few different setups in
>  the coming days to see where the problem might lie, but I wanted to
>  see if anyone else was having a similar issue.

I doubt it's dwm, so verify it with another wm.

>
>  My setup is on ArchLinux, using an abs build version of dwm 4.8 or 4.9
>  (vanilla sources plus an altered config.h). The version of firefox
>  does not seem to matter. On a thinkpad t61 using the intel xorg
>  drivers.
>
>
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