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jonnylinux at gmail

Dec 27, 2006, 5:48 AM

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Re: Cannot see menus with 0.20. Any ideas?

> On 8/17/06, William <wmunson [at] rochester> wrote:
> >
> > Since the release of 0.20 is approaching I wanted to give the svn a try.
> > No
> > problems compiling however when starting the frontend I cannot see the
> > menus. I know they are there as the graphics change as I scroll thru the
> >
> > items. I found a thread telling me to add -O UseOpenGLPainter=0 on the
> > command line. Unfortunately it did not help.
> >
> > I have the following options enabled:
> >
> > xv
> > xvmc
> > opengl_vsync
> > opengl
> >
> > plus the usual stuff. I also tried it compiled with only my usual xv
> > enabled. Any thoughts or suggestions?
>
>
>
> I have this problem too, but I discovered it was only GANT that had the
> problem, I changed to MythCenter and the text works fine. (I managed to work
> out which menu I needed to go to to change the theme - just look for the
> spanner setup icon - then the spanner again - then the paint and paintbrush,
> the text within the actual setup screens work fine).
>
> I'd still like to know how to fix GANT if anyone has any solutions though
> (I just tried to remove the themecache but it didn't do anything).
>
> Jonny
>

Sorry to post to an old thread - but I've just started having this problem
again. I can't see any of the menu text, only the pictures next to the icons
change. I can see the text in the watch recordings screen, andin the program
guide - its just the headings. It happens with most themes, but MythCenter
and Blue seem to be working. Its only started happening again today.

I'm using MythTV 0.20, and I've tried using both the OpenGL and the QT
Painter.

Has anyone else seen this?

Thanks,

Jonny

bolek-mythtv at curl

Dec 27, 2006, 6:04 AM

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Re: Cannot see menus with 0.20. Any ideas? [In reply to]

jonny Linux wrote:
> Sorry to post to an old thread - but I've just started having this
> problem again. I can't see any of the menu text, only the pictures next
> to the icons change. I can see the text in the watch recordings screen,
> andin the program guide - its just the headings. It happens with most
> themes, but MythCenter and Blue seem to be working. Its only started
> happening again today.
>
> I'm using MythTV 0.20, and I've tried using both the OpenGL and the QT
> Painter.
>
> Has anyone else seen this?

Yes, I have seen this but no solution (it does not happen on my
production box).

Bolek

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khanh at khanh

Dec 27, 2006, 6:23 AM

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Re: Cannot see menus with 0.20. Any ideas? [In reply to]

On 12/27/06, Boleslaw Ciesielski <bolek-mythtv [at] curl> wrote:
> jonny Linux wrote:
> > Sorry to post to an old thread - but I've just started having this
> > problem again. I can't see any of the menu text, only the pictures next
> > to the icons change. I can see the text in the watch recordings screen,
> > andin the program guide - its just the headings. It happens with most
> > themes, but MythCenter and Blue seem to be working. Its only started
> > happening again today.
> >
> > I'm using MythTV 0.20, and I've tried using both the OpenGL and the QT
> > Painter.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this?
>
> Yes, I have seen this but no solution (it does not happen on my
> production box).
>
> Bolek

See: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Q:_All_my_fonts_look_like_they_are_the_wrong_sizes.2C_how_can_I_correct_this.3F

Make sure the output of xdpyinfo yields, preferably, 100x100 dots per
inch. If not, follow the directions for your screen size/aspect ratio
and restart X Windows. You'll, of course, want to make sure you also
have 100dpi fonts installed...

-Khanh
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bolek-mythtv at curl

Dec 27, 2006, 6:59 AM

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Re: Cannot see menus with 0.20. Any ideas? [In reply to]

Khanh Tran wrote:
> See: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Q:_All_my_fonts_look_like_they_are_the_wrong_sizes.2C_how_can_I_correct_this.3F
>
> Make sure the output of xdpyinfo yields, preferably, 100x100 dots per
> inch. If not, follow the directions for your screen size/aspect ratio
> and restart X Windows. You'll, of course, want to make sure you also
> have 100dpi fonts installed...

Thanks. I can't reproduce it at the moment and I always had 100dpi set
but it's possible that I didn't have 100dpi fonts installed on one of
the boxes when this was happening.

(That box was only used for mythjobqueue/mythcommflag and did not have X
server installed. The problem appeared when running mythtv-setup
remotely, I think)

Bolek
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jonnylinux at gmail

Dec 27, 2006, 8:58 AM

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Re: Cannot see menus with 0.20. Any ideas? [In reply to]

> > Make sure the output of xdpyinfo yields, preferably, 100x100 dots per
> > inch. If not, follow the directions for your screen size/aspect ratio
> > and restart X Windows. You'll, of course, want to make sure you also
> > have 100dpi fonts installed...

Hi,

Yes, earlier today I changed to 100x100 dpi, and I have the
xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi rpm package installed (I use fc5). Is this the only
package I need for the 100dpi fonts?

Thanks,

Jonny

mrdemeanour at jackpot

Dec 27, 2006, 9:25 AM

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Re: Cannot see menus with 0.20. Any ideas? [In reply to]

jonny Linux wrote:

>
> Sorry to post to an old thread - but I've just started having this
> problem again. I can't see any of the menu text, only the pictures
> next to the icons change. I can see the text in the watch recordings
> screen, andin the program guide - its just the headings. It happens
> with most themes, but MythCenter and Blue seem to be working. Its
> only started happening again today.
>
> I'm using MythTV 0.20, and I've tried using both the OpenGL and the
> QT Painter.
>
> Has anyone else seen this?

I've seen what you're describing, using Titivillus(?), on a remote X
client. I can't shed any light on what might be behind it, as it's not a
configuration I use regularly (I only use it for fiddling with setup
from my desk, and I have workarounds, so I've never tried to fix it, or
even to diagnose it).

--
Jack.
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