[Bug 294076] Re: k3b looses screen text when run with desktop effects under gnome.

[TexasRanger]

My symptom:
With Ubuntu Visual Effects set to "Normal" or "Extra", OpenOffice menu text disappeared.

After several days of experimentation, I can report the following:
- I am running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS with Ubuntu release of OpenOffice 2.4.1 and Nvidia driver 96.43.09-0ubuntu1 graphics card driver.

- When I enabled Compiz Normal or Extra Visual Effects, the menu text in
all OpenOffice apps disappeared, replaced thin horizontal lines. Problem
does NOT occur with Visual Effects set to "None". No other apps
displayed the symptom, only Oo.

- After experimenting, I found that Oo fonts could be restored by
disabling "antialiasing" checkbox in the Oo Tools/Options/View submenu.
Of course, this made the menu text fonts look very pixel-y.

- Problem solved (for me) by running "sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-
config" and selecting "Autohinter", "Always" (for subpixel rendering on
my LCD display), and "No" for Enable bitmapped fonts. Then, I changed
Ubuntu System/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts to "Subpixel" smoothing.
Viola! Problem solved.

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k3b looses screen text when run with desktop effects under gnome.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294076
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