[21275] in Athena Bugs
Re: Mozilla random font changes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Thu Jan 2 11:36:25 2003
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 11:36:23 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: David Z Maze <dmaze@MIT.EDU>
cc: <bugs@MIT.EDU>
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Yeah, I see these all the time myself. Mozilla knows about both of
these problems (the platform swap/Chinese, and the Linux font/repaint
mess), so I really can't do anything else; they're not fixable by us.
Their attitude to the first problem, alas, so far seems to be "don't
switch platforms," which is unacceptable. (Bear in mind that Mozilla is
really designed to be installed on a single system for a single user,
shortsighted and non-Unix though that may be.)
- Todd
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, David Z Maze wrote:
> System name: zygorthian-space-raiders.mit.edu
> Type and version: i686 9.1.18 (with mkserv)
> Display type:
>
> Shell: /bin/athena/bash (/afs/sipb/project/sipb/bin/zsh?)
> Window manager: openbox (`athdir /afs/sipb/user/dmaze`/openbox)
>
> I routinely use Mozilla on both Solaris and Linux. Yesterday I was
> logged in on a Sun; today I'm logged in under Linux. If I type in a
> URL one character at a time, a box pops down with history and "page
> titles". The page titles, of course, are in mangled Chinese, since I
> switched platforms and endians.
>
> The discovery of the day is that, if I type in a URL one character at
> a time, every couple of characters the font of the URLs in the
> drop-down box changes. Sometimes this happens in the middle of the
> drop-down list. When this happens, the font of the entire Mozilla UI
> seems to change (and in particular, the text cursor position changes
> to be at the correct position in the new font), but since a redraw
> hasn't happened, there's no other visible change. If I force a redraw
> (by switching workspaces in my window manager), I see the new font
> globally.
>
> --
> David Maze dmaze@mit.edu http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/
> "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal."
> -- Abra Mitchell
>
>
