[Mageia-discuss] Strange font color

Mon May 9 06:34:09 CEST 2011

On 8 May 2011 17:52, Franklin Weng <franklin at goodhorse.idv.tw> wrote:
+> Hi list,
+> I just installed Mageia 1 Beta2, and found that this problem still occurred.
+> So I came here to ask if you could give me any hint.
+> This problem only happened on my laptop, which uses intel GM965 on-board
+> display chip.
+> It has been a problem since Mandriva 2010.1 and 2010.2.  I'm not sure if it
+> had the same problem on Mandriva 2010.0.
+> Please see this screenshot:
+> http://www.goodhorse.idv.tw/files/screenshot1.png
+> As you can see, in the KDE menu only the first item has words on it.  The
+> other items are icons only.
+> Actually, only Chinese fonts would become white.  Why do I think it become
+> white words on white background?
+> Please see:
+> http://www.goodhorse.idv.tw/files/screenshot2.png
+> http://www.goodhorse.idv.tw/files/screenshot3.png
+> In screenshot 3 you can see the words on my task bar.  The Chinese words are
+> white, while English words are black.
+> It also happened in the KDE menu:
+> http://www.goodhorse.idv.tw/files/screenshot4.png
+> I tried to create a clean user environment by logging in with an empty home
+> folder.  However this problem was still the same.
+> When I installed kubuntu or Linux Mint 10, this problem didn't happen.  Only
+> Mandriva and Mageia happened.
+> Have you ever seen similar problems before?  Changing the color settings in
+> KDE does not help to solve this problem.
+> Any suggestion or hint is appreciated.
+>
+> Thanks,
+> Franklin
+
+Did you try changing the color scheme to Oxygen or any other one?
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+