Opened 14 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#7223 closed bug (fixed)
changing fonts could leave system unreadable
| Reported by: | scottmc | Owned by: | axeld |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | R1/beta1 |
| Component: | Kits/Interface Kit | Version: | R1/Development |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | #3273 | Blocking: | |
| Platform: | All |
Description
I recently was testing out some fonts and switched one of the fonts to the one I was testing and it seems that the new font doesn't display correctly and seems to have wigged out many of the gui apps. I am not able to switch it back due to the font prefs app not displaying correctly (see attached image). Deleting the Font_Settings in /boot/home/config/settings/ didn't help. There should be a way to fall back to the default settings, but it's not clear to me and probably not clear to 90%+ of users what you should to to fall back to defaults (if it's even possible). Also it seems there's no "Component" avaiable on trac for "Preferences/Fonts".
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Change History (11)
by , 14 years ago
| Attachment: | defaultfont.png added |
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by , 14 years ago
| Attachment: | tallwindow.png added |
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When a bad font is installed Notifications Prefs app becomes a very tall window, perhaps even not having a bottom.
comment:1 by , 14 years ago
The tall window is similar to #3273, but I checked team monitor and it's showing up just fine.
Appearance prefs has no bottom. Backgrounds Pref has no bottom. CPU Frequency and DataTranslations do have a bottom but the text is not displaying correctly.
by , 14 years ago
| Attachment: | badfont.png added |
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comment:2 by , 14 years ago
The font that tripped this up was wqy-microhei: http://ports-space.haiku-files.org/media-fonts/ After rebooting the system was again readable and the wqy-microhei font was working and same with all the apps/prefs GUIs.
comment:3 by , 14 years ago
| Component: | Preferences/Appearance → Kits/Interface Kit |
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| Owner: | changed from to |
Sounds more like a bug in the font cache/font parsing then, assigning this to interface kit for now, though it might ultimately wind up being app_server.
comment:4 by , 14 years ago
I think you have to delete /boot/home/config/settings/system/app_server/appearance and reboot to restore default font settings. Though I agree that Font_Setting is more logical choice from the user POV.
Also app_server often lockups when non-default fonts are used, see #4258.
comment:5 by , 10 years ago
| Blocked By: | 3273 added |
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comment:6 by , 10 years ago
Does this still happen? I have been using non-default fonts for testing without noticing problems.
comment:7 by , 10 years ago
I'm unable to reproduce it after installing wqy-microhei package and setting it up in Appearance. Probably fixed?
comment:8 by , 10 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
I haven't seen this happen in a long long time, so closing as probably fixed.
How to change the font when I can't see anything?