Re: gnustep beginner

[Nicolas Roard]

On 2003-08-11 16:20:48 +0000 Manuel Teira <manuel.teira@softhome.net> wrote:

> I also had a lot of problems with the debian packages. At least in the unstable 
> distribution, that I'm using, the packages were broken a week ago.

Well, I installed GNUstep on a computer today (running debian sid), using
debian packages, and I had the same problem ... no font with back-xlib and grey 
font color or no font with back-art and black background sometimes...
> > And there was yet another strange thing IMHO. While all buttons were dark
> > grey a background was white.
> >
> > If somebody has been able to understand what I've tried to say here (I'm
> > not sure my knowledge of English is fine), please, give me some clues
> > about what can be the the reason for such the behaviour or what I should
> > do to understand it.
>
> I also suffered the same extrange behaviour in the first tests I made. 
> Unfortunately I don't know the reason. Anyway, I downloaded the CVS version of 
> the gnustep core and downloaded a set of fonts from www.gnustep.de and those 
> problems went away.

Hm :-/ the problem is that I removed the packages, checked out the cvs (using 
alex_latest_semistable tag), rebuild everything... and still has the problem !!

Anybody has an idea what's going on ???

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