[Tfug] Missing text on some programs.

[Glen Pfeiffer]

On Mon Nov 24, 2008 at 02:00:16PM -0700, Claude Rubinson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 01:44:26PM -0700, Tyler Nienhouse wrote:
> > I have no idea what the problem is, but on some programs, 
> > none of the  programs text is there. Like in OpenOffice, none 
> > of the labels or menu  items are there. And in Wine the 
> > programs have the same issue. This also  happens with Amarok.
> 
> So this is an Ubuntu-related problem?  (LinuxMint is based off 
> of Ubuntu.)  Did you do anything funky in your installation? 
> Generally a systemic-wide problem like this would be related to 
> your GUI toolkit but OpenOffice, Wine, and Amarok all use 
> different toolkits, so I'm not sure offhand where the problem 
> would lie.

How about a font issue? I don't know if there's a better 
approach, but I've noticed that font issues are often reported to 
the terminal if opened that way. So you could open the offending 
programs from a terminal and watch it for errors/warnings.

How about taking a look at .xsession-errors?

Glen