Pango >1.8.1 seems to have some rendering issues which is nicely showcased by the Komodo-IDE. After downgrading to 1.8.1-r1, everything works fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Komodo 1.8.2 2. Start Komodo 3. Open a textfile Actual Results: Totally broken rendering: http://ularx.de/komodo.jpg Expected Results: Not broken rendering. ;) As it does with 1.8.1. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-pipe -Os -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/" LANG="de" LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8" LINGUAS="de cs" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/hynek/src/gentoo" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X Xaw3d aac aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 apm artworkextra avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cscope cups curl dba dga directfb disablexmb divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd examples fam fame fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac flash foomaticdb fortran fping gd gdbm gif gnome gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal iconv icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jikes jpeg junit kde ldap leim libg++ libwww lzo mad maildir mikmod mjpeg mmap mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer mpm-prefork msn mule mysql ncurses network news nls nntp nocardbus nptl ntpl nvidia objc offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oracle oscar oss pam pcre pdflib perl plotutils png ppds python qt quicktime rar readline real rtc ruby sasl sdl slang spell sqlite ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tcpserver tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode videos vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwidgets wxwindows x86 xface xine xinetd xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib video_cards_radeon linguas_de linguas_cs userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
Seems to be a general pango 1.8.2 issue *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101080 ***