[Mageia-discuss] Strange font color

Mon May 9 06:43:51 CEST 2011

Hi, thanks for your reply.
+
+Please see below.
+
+Ahmad Samir 於 0100-05-09 寫道：
+> 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?
+
+
+Yes, I've tried many color schemes.  It did not help.
+
+However, I found that this might be issues about the fonts.  I imported the 
+Windows fonts from my Windows partition.  Using Windows fonts are okay, that 
+is, the characters shown in the task bar are black, not white.  Then I tried 
+some fonts.  Only "AR PL UKai TW" shows black characters.  "AR PL UMing TW", 
+or other English fonts like "Dejavu Sans", "Dejavu Serif", ... etc., all show 
+white Chinese characters and black English characters.
+
+I have no idea what the fonts the system will use when I specify "Dejavu Sans" 
+to the taskbar font and it needs to show Chinese.  I have no idea either why 
+some Chinese fonts show white Chinese characters and some (acutally so far 
+only one) shows black Chinese characters.
+
+Now my problem can be temporarily solved by specifying the fonts to AR PL UKai 
+TW.  However, do you have any idea why this problem would happen?
+
+
+Thanks,
+Franklin
+-------------- next part --------------
+A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
+Name: not available
+Type: application/pgp-signature
+Size: 198 bytes
+Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
+URL: </pipermail/mageia-discuss/attachments/20110509/57950401/attachment.asc>
+