Bug 714890 - Broken fonts
Summary: Broken fonts
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-shell
Version: 15
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Owen Taylor
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-06-21 08:33 UTC by Tim Niemueller
Modified: 2012-08-07 17:46 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 17:46:18 UTC
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Screenshot of broken fonts with Nautilus and Pidgin settings (358.62 KB, image/png)
2011-06-21 08:33 UTC, Tim Niemueller
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Description Tim Niemueller 2011-06-21 08:33:06 UTC
Created attachment 505777 [details]
Screenshot of broken fonts with Nautilus and Pidgin settings

Description of problem:
Since switching to F-15 and gnome-shell, fonts are broken, for example in Terminal, Gtk applications, and Emacs (see attached screenshot). The text is cutoff horizontally, such that the upper part is missing. It often happens after switching desktops. Firefox has also shown this problem.

Hardware is a Thinkpad T60 with ATI RV515 graphics adapter (according to system info in settings).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pango-1.28.4-1.fc15.x86_64
gnome-shell-3.0.2-1.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every now and then.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run fresh installation of gnome-shell
2. After a short time the problem starts to happen
3. With some actions the problem can be reverted for some time. For example in Emacs, I close on screen (having it split vertically once by default), and then split the screen again the font is normal again.

Comment 1 Tim Niemueller 2011-06-21 09:59:24 UTC
The problem manifests in Emacs even worse: some colored font items are simply now shown, for example syntax-highlighted "if"s get missing every now and then, more "now" than "then" unfortunately making this high priority for me. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Comment 2 Garrett Mitchener 2011-06-30 15:31:46 UTC
Possible related to bug # 679414

I'm also seeing this with glade 3.8 (which I compiled and packaged myself--
it's not in fedora.)

I also see this with firefox every so often, though it seems to fix itself
after a while.  Emacs never seems to recover.

Comment 3 Tim Niemueller 2011-10-11 22:14:10 UTC
Any progress on this?

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