Re: Text disappears in Firefox/Thunderbird

[Alex Hanson <alex%alexhanson.org@localhost>]

Tobias Nygren wrote:
> Some thoughts:
> 1) Did you install meta-packages/modular-xorg-fonts?
> 2) Does "fc-cache -v" followed by "fc-list" list all the fonts properly?
> 3) Does disabling acceleration in the X server make any difference?
>
> Cheers,
> -Tobias
>   
1) Yes.

2) Seems to. I have the MS core fonts installed because I'm most 
comfortable with them for web use. So while non-MS fonts have entries 
like this:
Nimbus Mono L:style=Bold

MS fonts are polluted with style details that don't display properly:

Arial:style=Italic,Cursiva,kurzíva,kursiv,Π
»¬³¹±,Kursivoitu,Italique,DÅlt,Corsivo,Cursief,Kursywa,Itálico,ÐѸ²,Ä°talik,PoÅ¡evno,nghiêng,Etzana

That was copied from rxvt-unicode. xterm yields garbage too, just in 
ASCII instead of unicode.
My current Firefox preferences indicate that I want to use the MS fonts. 
Changing the font settings to all use Nimbus Mono L, I experience the 
same result. So the fc-list listing is buggy, but not the source of my 
problem.
3) I don't have DRI enabled. Is there some other setting I should check for?


Thanks for your help thus far
-Alex Hanson