GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 593636
Text sometimes displays surrounded by a black box
Last modified: 2009-08-31 19:53:17 UTC
Created attachment 142109 [details] Partial screenshot of Gnome DO showing the bug Occasionally, but often repeatably, text will display surrounded by black boxes. This is most problematic when the text itself is black! I'll attach a couple of screenshots, one from Gnome DO, the other from Gramps. Both applications consistently show the bug, as does Notify OSD. Firefox will sometimes block out text too, but mostly with non-black text. Gramps is the only application I've found so far which will consistently block out black text. It only does it on one of its screens (the pedigree screen) but makes that bit of UI almost completely unusable. Originally reported to Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414048
Created attachment 142110 [details] Partial screenshot of Gramps showing the bug
Created attachment 142111 [details] Partial screenshot of Firefox showing the bug
Sounds like a X driver issue. Coming from launchpad, I assume proprietary drivers where used. Not pango's fault anyway.
Okay. For the record, no proprietary drivers here :).
yeah, ubuntu users can be also just be OSS users
reopening, do you really need to do some ubuntu trolling on bugs there?
I'm not trolling anyone. This bug is NOT a pango bug. Most probably xorg or whoever else provides the driver. *May* be cairo or pixman, but chances are very slim. Again, NOT pango at all. Pango doesn't deal with pixels.
Closing again. Hope no one minds this time.
It's fine by me, thanks for your help and education.