[Evolution] square-letter-square-letter, evolution 1.05, gnome 2.4, debian-testing

[Jeffrey Stedfast]

Upgrade. 1.0.5 is like 3 years old now.

Jeff

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 14:29, Joost Witteveen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In some configurations, and I cannot figure out what configurations
> excactly, Evolution starts to show a square/space before each
> character/letter, in the window where it displays the body of a message.
> 
> On the main system we use, some people are plagued by it, while others
> aren't. They use XFree servers that are identically configurated, so
> that doesn't seem to be the problem.
> 
> Usually it happens when Evolution tries to display HTML email -- the
> HTML part (including the `headers' in the normal Message Display state)
> gets `squared up'.
> 
> 
> Sometimes (as can be seen in the screenshot below) evolution decides to
> show spaces instead of squares inbetween each letter.
> 
> 
> Screenshot:
>   http://co.uea.org/~joostje/evolution.png
> Here you see the lovely Ximian welcome message displayed in the `squared
> up' format, and this email I tried to type in Evolution (to the right).
> 
> 
> XF86Config-4, font part (simplest try, adding more lines seems to make
> no difference):
> 
> Section "Files"
>   FontPath  "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
>   FontPath  "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> EndSection
> 
> Does anyone know how I could fix this (or where I should start looking
> to fix it?)
> 
> 
> 
> Versions:
> evolution 1.05
> gnome 2.4
> debian-testing (been having the problems for several mounths)
> linux-2.4.24 & 2.6.1 (and others)
> 
> $ cat .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 
> # Autowritten by gnome-settings-daemon. Do not edit
> 
> include "/home/joostje/.gtkrc.mine"
> 
> $ cat .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 
> # Autowritten by gnome-settings-daemon. Do not edit
> include "/home/joostje/.gtkrc.mine"
> 
> 
> $ cat .gtkrc.mine
> No such file or directory.
> 
> OK, I copied the .gtkrc.mine file from another system, and now
> I have:
> $ cat .gtkrc.mine
> style "default"
> {
>     fontset = "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-140-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> }
> 
> widget_class "*" style "default"
> 
> And now I notice one change: in the email-editing window (right in the
> screenshot above), everything displays OK now when editing non-html
> email. When I select HTML-email, however, it displays the squares again
> (as seen in the Ximian welcome mesage above)
> 
> Thanks,
> joost witteveen
> 
> 
> 
> 
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