On like 866 of /etc/ardour/ardour_ui.rc it specifies a font for the track name that on mine and many other gentoo systems does not exist. The font is lucida. I have installed several font packages to try and rememdy the problem but no luck. However changing the font specified to -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-8-*-*-*-p-*-*-* is a good work around for the problem. If anyone can find the specific package that lucida is in I think it may be a good idea to include it as a depend to ardour. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run jackd 2.Start ardour 3.Open up or create a new project Actual Results: Ardour loads a music project and the names of each audio track are scrambled in ascii squares. Expected Results: It should have displayed the text corrrectly. This problem only seems to be apparent on computers using Xorg. When i used Xfree there were no problems.
I was just looking through Xorg changelogs and found a patch for a lucida problem. I am currently installing the latest revision of the ebuild. This may solve the problem. If so i am sorry for bothering you.
I've got hit by this yesterday. I'll provide a workaround for this problem in the mean time until X.org follows through with the lucida problem.
in portage. I think it would be an overkill for you to remerge ardour, just use the sed I've added to the ebuild: sed -e 's/lucida[^-]*-/helvetica-/' -i /etc/ardour/ardour_ui.rc
