mache at creeger
Aug 31, 2007, 9:48 PM
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Solution: Blank Menu Items on New Fedora 7 Install
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Just wanted to share this fix.
I reinstalled Fedora 7 on my server from scratch and included the
most current stable release of myth. Following Jarod Wilson's
directions to the letter, once the installation was complete, I fired
up mythtv-setup for the first time. To my surprise all I got was a
background, the icon, and no menu items. The same problem occurred
when I ran mythfrontend.
After playing around with the cursor keys I noted that the menu items
were indeed on the screen but were invisible. To make matters worse
the mouse was also not visible.
It turns out that the XML theme used by both these programs requires
the Arial true type font and neither Fedora 7 nor myth supplies it in
their respective base installations.
I found this simple set of directions to add in a base set of true
type fonts (which includes Ariel) to Fedora 7 and it solved the problem.
1. Open a Terminal and cd to a directory you can work in
2. Become root
3. Download the MS Core Fonts Smart Package File
wget http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec
4. Make sure that the rpm-build and cabextract packages are installed
yum install rpm-build cabextract
5. Build the Core Fonts package:
rpmbuild -ba msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec
6. Install the Core Fonts package
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm
The web site I found this one was: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installfonts
Good luck,
-- Mache
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