[Tfug] Missing text on some programs.

[Tyler Nienhouse]

I found the problem! It is compiz! Anyone know why compiz would cause this
problem?

Tyler


On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 14:33, Tyler Nienhouse <flakeparadigm at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Correction - It isn't in wine. That is a different problem. What puzzles
> me, though, is that this problem happens in GTK and QT apps but not all of
> them.
>
> John Gruenenfelder wrote:
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> 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.
>
> I am currently using LinuxMint 6 (rc1) but this was also happening when
> I was using Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex.
>
>
>  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.
>
>
>  Ah, LinuxMint is based on Ubuntu?  If that is the case, I would look into the
> Ubuntu translation/language packages.  They have their own section in the APT
> package database.  I'm pretty sure you can't have a working system without at
> least one of them.
>
> Since you didn't say anything about package issues, my guess would be that you
> have your LANG environment variable set properly, en_US.UTF-8 I think, but you
> have the wrong set of Ubuntu translation packages installed.  Presumably, if
> you had both matching you'd have *some* text, though not necessarily in the
> language you want.
>
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