On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 20:14 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/09/2011 07:14 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 12/09/2011 12:16 PM, Craig White wrote: > >>>> But, I do hope that all this doesn't result in a tangent to the original > >>>>> question. > >>> ---- > > Although I use Thunderbird (8 and 9) I don't use Chinese chars - but I > > do have a rendering problem that is quite frustrating and I hope this > > is not hijacking your thread - > > > > When composing with html formatting - there are many times in the > > compose window that a line will blank out with often some red uneven > > lines along it - moving the cursor back up and removing a character > > and retyping it will often fix the rendering and everything is fine > > again - this has been happening for quite a long time with TB 8 and > > also 9 but I don't know if this is being worked on for a fix - anyone > > else seeing this or am I alone? It happens even if I change the font > > (all normal characters though and not Chinese) > > > Your problem seems to be different than mine. > > I must admit that I'd not done any detailed analysis. I will have to > try composing a message when the condition happens again. As well as > copy/paste to a different window outside of TB. > > In my case, since it only affects the Chinese characters I wonder if it > is some sort of memory corruption. > > A long time ago, I did see something along the lines of what you > describe. It ended up being a video driver issue. > > Hey, since you didn't talk about line lengths there was no hijacking > whatsoever. :-) :-) I had a similar thing happen once or twice with FireFox. It turns out that there was some sort of goofy permissions issue with the fonts in /usr/share/fonts I did the following and got things working: chown -R root:root /usr/share/fonts/* chmod -R 755 /usr/share/fonts/* This might be a bit of overkill on permissions, but I have not had a problem since... Cheers, Chris -- ============================================= "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand." -- Milton Friedman, American economist and Nobel Prize recipient -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
