Re: no text shown in menus and windows

[Fred Kiefer]

Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just installed gnustep-startup-0.22.0 on opensuse 11.0, i386, further I 
> installed Gorm, Renaissance and GDL2 from svn. When I startup Gorm or 
> DBModeler, then in the menus and windows there is no text shown. Everything 
> seems to work fine, but I have to guess where to click (:
> I see a lot of the following messages scrolling in the console:
> 
> 2009-02-17 09:30:48.272 DBModeler[16221] X-Windows error - RenderBadPicture 
> (invalid Picture parameter)
>           on display: :0.0
>                 type: 0
>        serial number: 10138
>         request code: 155
> 2009-02-17 09:30:48.272 DBModeler[16221] X-Windows error - RenderBadPicture 
> (invalid Picture parameter)
>           on display: :0.0
>                 type: 0
>        serial number: 10142
>         request code: 155
> 2009-02-17 09:30:48.771 DBModeler[16221] X-Windows error - BadMatch (invalid 
> parameter attributes)
>           on display: :0.0
>                 type: 0
>        serial number: 10157
>         request code: 155
> 2009-02-17 09:30:48.772 DBModeler[16221] X-Windows error - RenderBadPicture 
> (invalid Picture parameter)
> 
> 
> I have this libffi installed:
> libffi43-4.3.1_20080507-9.1
> and the -devel rpm.
> 
> any idea what could be wrong?


I have been using the art backend for some time on OpenSuse 11.0 and it
worked quite well. (Since then I switched to OpenSuse 11.1 and there the
cairo backend has a problem)
We have a few reported issues with the art backend, the most common one
is the use of not supported X settings, like a wrong depth. The backend
reports about that problem when you start an application.
The other issues is something that I haven't been able to track down. It
is related to FreeType fonts and you can read a lot about it in the bug
report #25243.

Fred