RE: [gtkextra] No text is drawn

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 22:45 -0700, Al Hooton wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 22:41 -0400, MQ wrote:
> > I remember reading that this is a bug in gnome that propagates through
> > Pango. Gtk-Extra is not dependent on Gnome, but version 2.x is dependent on
> > Pango which in turn uses some sort of global font settings from GNOME. That
> > is why if you don't gane the gnome-settings-daemon running the fonts don't
> > show up. I also remember that the Mandrake people had placed a request to
> > fix the bug in the GNOME bug tracker. Not sure where that ended up at.
> 
> 	FYI, for those interested, that bug is here (still not resolved), but
> with further discussion:
> 
> 	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104341
> 

This has nothing to do with fonts not showing up. GTK+ and Xft will use
in order:

 - Xft/DPI XSETTING
 - Xft.dpi X resource
 - DPI from the screen

So if gnome-settings-daemon isn't there to provide the DPI, it will
*still* have a DPI. GTK+ works perfectly fine in non-GNOME environments.

Regards,
						Owen

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