Fonts not shown in dialogs window

I can confirm that. I don't see any text, neither in xmms nor in any other gtk1 application (linpopup, xdialog, bittorrent-gui). It seems to be caused by some upgrade within the last few days.

Yes, same here. Upgraded from Dapper just now and now I have this exact issue. Maybe it's missing some fonts or GTK1 package or something..?

Ok, this isn't exactly an XMMS problem. Anyway, fixed by adding a ~/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 with the following contents:

style "user-font"
{
fontset="-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"

Enjoy! I for one am lost without my trusty XMMS (all other music players suck).

Have you a fresh edgy installation?
Take a look at bug 62300. Maybe you have the same issue.

By the way, i'm changing affected package, once the problem is not in xmms, but in gtk1.

I had a fresh edgy installation, at first time all worked as it meant to be.
But in some point after an update the text was missed...

The workaround suggested by elixxir worked like a charm.

I would like to add a point, you must insert those lines in a file called ~/.gtkrc.mine,
if you don't do that the file will be overwritten in next boot because ~/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 is created every time gnome is started

I upgraded from dapper to edgy a while ago.

elixxir's workaround didn't work here, apparently the helvetica font is broken: when I run xfontsel and select helvetica (or any other adobe font), the preview area of the xfontsel window is not drawn at all (the previously selected font or parts of overlapping windows remain).

However, using the following ~/.gtkrc.mine works for me:

style "user-font"
{
fontset="-bitstream-bitstream vera sans-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"

Laudeci: yes that's right, you have to put it in ~/.gtkrc.mine, I was too lazy to reply since it's pretty easy to figure it out (as you pointed out gnome doesn't like you messing with its own file)

As it has been classified as duplicate of bug 62300 showed above, i will close this.
Some answers are showed up and in page 62300.

I hope that all here got answers too

Hugs

Removing ~/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 (as mentioned for bug 62300) solved it for me, without a need for a ~/.gtkrc.mine. The issue in xfontsel is also gone, I don't know if it was related.

Audacity Screenshot: http://rhk.homelinux.net/temp/audacity.png

I installed the suggested fonts but wasn't able to remove ~/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 since I don't have it. I only had .gtkrc-2.0 but removing it didn't help. I don't have Gnome either. Creating .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 or .gtkrc-mine with above suggested contents didn't help.

I also installed the fonts suggested here: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gtk+1.2/+bug/62300/comments/8

Starting audacity on command line gives no messages.

I originally had an up-to date Kubuntu Dapper installed and audacity worked fine. After update to Edgy the menus were gone. I suppose Edgy installation removed some required packages.

r

If someone is still looking for a solution, as far as I remember, fixing the font paths in xorg.conf did the trick:

In the FontPath - lines (in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf), make sure that you have /usr/share/fonts/X11/ instead of /usr/share/X11/fonts.

For example change line
  FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
to line
  FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"

I'm not 100% sure this was the trick that did it for me but .. I'd suppose chancing the font paths to ones that really exist won't hurt you..

r

None of the above tricks worked for Me , I am on a fresh install of Ubuntu Feisty

I have tried all of the above but nothing seems to be working for me, still no text on the menu of XMMS. Why doesnt anyone recognize this bug? I had installed Edgy Eft and then upgraded to Feisty Fawn using the built-in upgrade option. XMMS does not show any text on menus. Its really irritating.

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