Hi,

I will remove NiceFonts in future squeak-dev until these problems are fixed.

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck
<marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi! I have the same problem here. I am using Ubuntu 8.04 with compiz and an
> ati video driver. With sq3.10.2-7179dev08.08.1.image it works perfect, but
> with sq3.9.1-7075web08.06.1.image I have this error.
>
> I tried changing color depth to 16, 24 and 32, but it doesnt work.
>
> Bert: Sorry but I didn't understand your comment. Is there a fix? How can I
> do it? Can someone help me?
>
> many thanks,
>
> mariano
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
> wrote:
>>
>> Am 17.08.2008 um 17:56 schrieb Ken Causey:
>>
>>> On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 17:04 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Am 17.08.2008 um 11:29 schrieb laurent laffont:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've switched to KDE4 and played with composite rendering.  With
>>>>> last squeak dev images some fonts are not rendered: it seems to be
>>>>> interpreted as a transparent region by the composite manager (see
>>>>> screenshot). I've tested this on my two debian boxes.
>>>>>
>>>>> This problem is not present in sq3.9.1-7075dev08.07.1 image, so I
>>>>> suppose it's due to NiceFont integration ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Maybe it occurs more often with nice fonts, but it actually is a
>>>> combined VM/image problem.
>>>>
>>>> The VM prefers a 32 bit X visual (with alpha channel) over a 24 bit
>>>> one. If a compositing window manager is used, the alpha channel is
>>>> used for transparency, but the image generally does not care about the
>>>> alpha channel in its frame buffer.
>>>
>>> Does that mean there is some core location(s) where the alpha channel
>>> needs to be defaulting to full opacity but currently it is not?
>>
>> Yes, that is where the transparent areas are under a compositing window
>> manager. I also remember partly translucent menus in (old versions of)
>> Croquet, and having to fix the alpha channel after taking a screenshot.
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>>>> The olpc branch in the SVN repository has a fix for that, see
>>>>
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/6fhqmw
>>>>
>>>> - Bert -
>>>
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