186025 - letters on menues /forms are badly spaced (impossible to read)

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[till plewe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021218 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021218 Phoenix/0.5

sometimes the spacing is so bad that the order of letters is switched, e.g. 
the  menu "View" reads "_iVew" (i and V overlap a bit)
the http address for this site is impossible to decipher  without copying
and pasting it into some terminal
It seems that the spacing of the letter i is completely off.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start phoenix
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
get an illegible toolbar

Expected Results:  
get a useable toolbar

mozilla/beonex works fine

Comment 1

[alanjstr]

Is this a default install without a theme?  What WindowManager are you using?  

Comment 2

[till plewe]

INSTALL: default install without themes from the FreeBSD ports collection.

WINDOWMANAGERS: blackbox, hackedbox, ratpoison, fluxbox, icewm give the same result

Other Browsers: Mozilla 0.9-1.2 and Beonex 0.8 worked/work fine

I am rebuilding phoenix without anti-aliasing now and post result by tomorrow. 

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

phoenix doesn't have any freeBSD hackers so this bug is unlikely to see any
action unless some freeBSD person steps up to investigate and fix

Comment 4

[till plewe]

there are two short term solutions:
1) disabling anti-aliasing (build using option WITHOUT_XFT)
2) removing at least the following fonts (there may be others) from the fontpath
in the X configuration file (XF86Config or XF86Config-4)

    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
  
I'll try to contact the maintainer of the phoenix port

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Phoenix builds don't enable xft. This is not our bug.

Comment 6

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified invalid 2004-01-10