Bug#274033: pango: selecting proportional font for GTK results in
'size 0' errors
Kimiko Koopman
Kimiko Koopman <kimiko@brokenmoon2.xs4all.nl>,
274033@bugs.debian.org
Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:01:32 +0200
Package: libpango1.0-0
Version: 1.6.0-1
Severity: normal
File: pango
Tags: experimental
When I choose a proportional font for GTK/Gnome (doesn't matter whether this
is done through the gnome-font-properties dialogs or through gconftool-2),
all gnome windows are resized to enormous horizontal sizes and menu and
such texts are rendered unreadably small (mere dots). This can partially
be circumvented (which is how I have been getting by for the past week or
so) by selecting a fixed-width font. Even so, all Gnome apps still spew
lots and lots of repeats of this Pango error to stderr:
** (galeon:1481): CRITICAL **: file pango-context.c: line 269 (pango_context_load_font): assertion `pango_font_description_get_size (desc) != 0' failed
(app name and process id vary of course, the rest is always the same)
I'm not sure if this is really a bug in Pango, or in some other part of
Gnome, since fonts are rendered normally in widgets not directly under
Gnome's control, such as Galeon's main window/view. It may or may not have
started after upgrading to Pango 1.6.0, but downgrading to 1.5.2 or 1.4.1
doesn't get rid of it.
If this is not a Pango bug, can you please tell me anyway what package
likely causes it, or how to get rid of it?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers experimental
APT policy: (995, 'experimental'), (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-k7
Locale: LANG=, LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso885915
Versions of packages libpango1.0-0 depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.6-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libpango1.0-common 1.6.0-1 Modules and configuration files fo
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.2-1 compression library - runtime
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