Fresh stripped down install of stable x86 with xorg and fluxbox. Installed ardour jack and hydrogen from unstable. Most of the fonts are small and unreadable, or just represented with squares, as if they where missing. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install ardour 2. start ardour 3. watch beautiful squares instead of letters in track names tigergut root # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6. -mm1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-mm1 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.20GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/ hare/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.ed http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode f77 foomaticdb gif gp gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis pengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
By sorting out some font config issues in xorg.conf, i fixed the unreadable fonts. I now use the recommended font path from the manpage xorg.conf(5x). I tracked down the fonts represented by a square in /etc/ardour/ardour_ui.rc The style "track_name_display" is defining a font ardour can't display. ### style "track_name_display" { font = "-*-lucida-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*" fg[NORMAL] = { 0.99, 0.99, 0.87 } fg[ACTIVE] = { 0.99, 0.99, 0.87 } base[NORMAL] = { 0.26, 0.26, 0.26 } base[ACTIVE] = { 0.26, 0.26, 0.26 } bg[NORMAL] = { 0.26, 0.26, 0.26 } bg[ACTIVE] = { 0.26, 0.26, 0.26 } } ### Strangely xfontsel(1) can display that font just fine. Changing the style used from "track_name_display" to "medium_text" or other working style, enables ardour to display a font in "widget "*EditorTrackNameDisplay""
Doesn't happen here...all looks good to me. Going to close this as invalid I'm afraid, it sounds like some xorg conf snafu.