Re: What could be missing?

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:29:10 -0500, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm attaching two text files: one is the list of the packages that are
> still on, the other of the packages that were removed. Obviously, what
> is on the desktop PC (installation where NEdit works perfectly) is
> what's on the two lists together.

Did the packages change significantly from 12.2 to 13.1? I have a ton more  
font related packages than you do.

> But I'll make it very simple and clear for you. In the working
> installation, NEdit works perfectly. I can write and save lengthy
> files without a glitch. The text is sharp and the expected size. The
> text in the menus is perfectly legible. The program works as expected.
> Not so in the other install. With the same fonts installed and
> selected, the text in both the main window and menu windows is very
> small and fragmented, and also multicolored (e.g. one character can be
> half black, half red; the next one, green; the following one partly
> red, partly blue). Menu buttons cannot be mouse clicked at the
> location where they appear to be, but will respond to clicking about
> half an inch away from that location. Only 3-4 characters can be
> written in the main window, after which the cursor disappears along
> with any further characters (but can be brought back to the initial
> position by backspacing). This should give you a very clear picture of
> what is going on.

This really sounds like a misconfigured X installation, specifically  
relating to the font server and such. Either that or badly specified font  
specs or corrupted fonts. I have seen things like this on my NEdit, but it  
was directly caused by the fonts that I was using. Any fonts that came by  
default as part of X.org worked fine, and most other fonts worked fine.  
Luxi Mono was one of those that came by default and worked out of the box,  
even though it does not have all the weights and variations.

	Aaron W. Hsu

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