Package: control-center
Severity: normal
Version: debian 2.2.0.1-1
Synopsis: font-properties dialog crashes on /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi=0
Bugzilla-Product: control-center
Bugzilla-Component: other capplets

Description:
Description of Problem:

While trying to get font-properties to use the DPI as reported by X
(instead of having to manually specify it (it was wrong)), I managed to
crash gnome-font-properties.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. set gconf key /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi to empty string
2. gconf-editor replaces empty string with 0
3. attempt to start font-properties through Applications -> Desktop
Preferences -> Font

Actual Results:

No font properties window appears. This appears in .xsession-errors:

The program 'gnome-font-properties' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 377 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
function.)


Expected Results:

See the font-properties window

I note that the "Advanced Font Properties" DPI widget replaces a value
<50 with 50.  Presumably the same thing should happen when reading the
gconf value too.

How often does this happen?

every time dpi is set to 0

Additional Information:

(man its hard work to report bugs in gnome.  i was forced to create a
bugzilla login and wait for a password email before i could even report
a bug??  jdub mentioned that i could use bug-buddy without having a
bugzilla account, but even bug-buddy requires you to know that "that
popup window there" is actually control-center/font-properties, and then
you have to find a version.. 
surely you can do a simple "click on window, get WM_COMMAND property (i
note gnome doesn't set this) or something, grab --version output, email
bug description with info and maybe screenshot")




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-02-18 21:31 -------

Reassigning to the default owner of the component, control-center-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.