Bug#346421: Font corruption in GTK+ and Qt apps

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 01:59 +0200, Lluis wrote:
> > So this happens both with the proprietary nvidia driver, the intel one, 
> > and both with GTK+ and Qt applications?
> 
> this is what it seems...
> 
> 
> > This sounds more like a problem with the X server. From the xorg.conf it 
> > looks like you have a very custom setup, have you tried to temporarily 
> > move it out of the way and try with the default settings? The ones that 
> > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" gives you?
> 
> well, after fiddling around with the "optional" lines of my xorg.conf, I've 
> found a combination of two lines which drive the rendering crazy (in the 
> Device section):
> 
> Option "AccelMethod" "exa"
> Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
> 
> 
> > Also, is there anything common between the GTK+ and Qt applications, for 
> > example, what kind of font are you using?
> 
> After playing with the options, it seems to me that it's something related 
> to the xserver (although only the text of some - gtk & qt - applications 
> and the gnome trayincon applets seem to be affected)
> 
> Hope this helps instead of darkening the problem :)
> 
> PS: if it is confirmed, maybe this bug should be "linked" (or wathever is 
> the official name) to the X server.

AFAIK exa was introduced recently so I'm not sure that this is the same
problem you reported back in 2006.

Anyway, I'm cc'ing the X maintainers as this is way over my head,
hopefully one of them can pinpoint what's going on here.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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