Vinod wrote on 2002-06-05 17:01 UTC: > Hi there.I had just installed the linux realplayer on > my freebsd 4.5 release and the real player works just > fine.but all letters on the buttons of the player are > replaced by small squares.like the 'OK' button is a > button with two squares, 'File' with 4 squares e.t.c. > i think its some font problem but since i am a newbie > to x windows dont have a clue to what i need.would > apreciate if someone can show me whats to be done. > please CC me any replies as i am not subscribed.
A screenshot would help to understand better what exactly you see. Is it really "instead of letters" (which letters) or is it "in addition to letters"? Hypothesis: The BDF fonts in newer XFree86 versions all have the default character defined, to make visible when someone prints a character that's not part of the font. The default character is a little box or dashed box usually. Some programs have bugs such as that they try to print NUL or TAB characters via Xlib, which was so far invisible, because without a default character defined unprintable codes got mapped to spaces. Solution: Report to the RealPlayer developers (with a screenshot) that they probabaly print non-printable characters via XDrawString and that this bug now shows up. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
