Re: no text shown in menus and windows

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Tuesday 17 February 2009 12:04:19 pm Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> On 17 Feb 2009, at 10:57, David Ayers wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, den 17.02.2009, 09:50 +0100 schrieb Sebastian Reitenbach:
> >> I just installed gnustep-startup-0.22.0 on opensuse 11.0, i386,
> >> further I
> >> installed Gorm, Renaissance and GDL2 from svn. When I startup Gorm or
> >> DBModeler, then in the menus and windows there is no text shown.
> >> Everything
> >> seems to work fine, but I have to guess where to click (:
> >> I see a lot of the following messages scrolling in the console:
> >
> > It sounds like a -back or font issue.  I guess you have the same issue
> > with Ink?
> >
> > http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Ink
> >
> > Cheers,
> > David
> >
> > PS: Is ink in a public version control repository?  I thought it was
> > part of GAP but that doesn't seem to be the case.
>
> Ink is in the GNUstep svn repository
> iirc it's in the  gui examples in the 'tests' area.

IIRC, the different backends handle the fonts differently. I could switch back 
to xlib, and also try Ink, in case someone is interested. If so, for what 
shall I look for to figure out whether it is a font or backend issue?

Sebastian