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Like the heading says, way OT. My reason: desperation.

I unpacked the eclipse SDK v2.1.1 for gtk. No prior releases on
this system.

When I run the eclipse binary I get the splash screen then the dialogs
appear and it's up and running. Trouble is that there is no text
anywhere. The drop-down menus are all blank (just a dot where a word
should be). Even when I type the cursor shows up but no text!!

Version info:
$ ls /var/log/packages/gtk*
/var/log/packages/gtk+-1.2.10-i386-2
/var/log/packages/gtk+-2.2.2
/var/log/packages/gtk-engines-0.12-i386-1
/var/log/packages/gtkhtml-1.0.2-i386-1
/var/log/packages/gtkmm-1.2.8-i386-1
$ echo $JAVA_HOME
/opt/j2sdk1.4.1

I have messed around with window managers in the past - have ice now
and very smug - no other problems at all.

It's OT, but can any knowledgable slackers point me in the right
direction here??

I want to learn to use eclipse but without text it's not intuitive
- I'll mail the developers about that once it's working ;-)

Cheers and sorry to clog up aols with java mumbo-jumbo!

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Ben Fitzgerald
London, UK

Ben Fitzgerald <bmf1DELETE@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in
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> Like the heading says, way OT. My reason: desperation.
>
> I unpacked the eclipse SDK v2.1.1 for gtk. No prior releases on
> this system.
>
> When I run the eclipse binary I get the splash screen then the
> dialogs appear and it's up and running. Trouble is that there is
> no text anywhere. The drop-down menus are all blank (just a dot
> where a word should be). Even when I type the cursor shows up but
> no text!!

I remember having this problem a last year or the year before.
Unfortunately, the neurons on which those details were stored have been
recycled . I vaguely remember it having to do with font setup.

Have you searched on the Eclipse mailing list and web archives (on
eclipse.org)?.

Glenn.

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On 3 Sep 2003 17:31:08 -0500, Glenn G. D'mello <devnull@dmello.org> wrote:
> Ben Fitzgerald <bmf1DELETE@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in
> news:slrnblchqr.87.bmf1DELETE@home-two.home:
>
>> dialogs appear and it's up and running. Trouble is that there is
>> no text anywhere. The drop-down menus are all blank (just a dot
>> where a word should be). Even when I type the cursor shows up but
>> no text!!
>
> I remember having this problem a last year or the year before.
> Unfortunately, the neurons on which those details were stored have been
> recycled . I vaguely remember it having to do with font setup.

Tantilising or what!???! I can't believe you just dropped that on me!!

> Have you searched on the Eclipse mailing list and web archives (on
> eclipse.org)?.

Yeah, I spent ages going through it _all_, thousands of messages!

I posted my problem there too but no helpful responses

Thanks for replying, though. Any more info on the fonts is greatly
appreciated. e.g. is it and x config thing or a font package??

Thanks,


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Ben Fitzgerald
London, UK

Ben Fitzgerald <bmf1DELETE@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in
news:slrnblcs2m.cb.bmf1DELETE@home-two.home:

> On 3 Sep 2003 17:31:08 -0500, Glenn G. D'mello
> <devnull@dmello.org> wrote:
>> I remember having this problem a last year or the year before.
>> Unfortunately, the neurons on which those details were stored
>> have been recycled . I vaguely remember it having to do with
>> font setup.
>
> Tantilising or what!???! I can't believe you just dropped that on
> me!!

Sorry I couldn't be more specific. At that time I was running Slackware
3.3 and in the process of upgrading it to glibc2.

> Thanks for replying, though. Any more info on the fonts is greatly
> appreciated. e.g. is it and x config thing or a font package??

Just a check: Are you having the same problem with the Motif build of
Eclipse? Running any TrueType fonts? XFontServer?
How about the Java fonts? Are they setup correctly? Can you run any of
the Java Demo programs ?

At this point my bet would be to doublecheck fonts in the JDK install.

Glenn.

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On 4 Sep 2003 14:50:13 -0500, Glenn G. D'mello <devnull@dmello.org> wrote:
> Ben Fitzgerald <bmf1DELETE@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in
> news:slrnblcs2m.cb.bmf1DELETE@home-two.home:
>
>> On 3 Sep 2003 17:31:08 -0500, Glenn G. D'mello
>> <devnull@dmello.org> wrote:
> Just a check: Are you having the same problem with the Motif build of
> Eclipse? Running any TrueType fonts? XFontServer?

It's gtk+-2.2.2
$ ls /var/log/packages/ | grep -i fonts
gnu-gs-fonts-6.0-noarch-1
xfree86-fonts-misc-4.2.0-i386-1
xfree86-fonts-scale-4.2.0-i386-1

> How about the Java fonts? Are they setup correctly? Can you run any of
> the Java Demo programs ?

I downloaded jbuilder9 and that works fine. Fonts and everything!

> At this point my bet would be to doublecheck fonts in the JDK install.

I have jsdk1.4.1 installed. I know little about java. What should I
look for?

Thanks for you help, Glenn

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London, UK

Ben Fitzgerald <bmf1DELETE@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in
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> I have jsdk1.4.1 installed. I know little about java. What should
> I look for?

Check the $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/fonts directory.

Also see if Eclipse is logging any errors in
eclipse/workspace/.metadata/.log

I've noticed that I have true type fonts installed on my system - so if
all else fails, install TTF's and try again.

That's all I can think of. Sorry for not being able to be more
helpfull.

Glenn.


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On 5 Sep 2003 13:45:08 -0500, Glenn G. D'mello <devnull@dmello.org> wrote:
> Ben Fitzgerald <bmf1DELETE@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in
> news:slrnblfak9.aa.bmf1DELETE@home-two.home:
>
> Check the $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/fonts directory.
>
> Also see if Eclipse is logging any errors in
> eclipse/workspace/.metadata/.log
>
> I've noticed that I have true type fonts installed on my system - so if
> all else fails, install TTF's and try again.
>
> That's all I can think of. Sorry for not being able to be more
> helpfull.

Glenn, I'm very grateful for any help! Don't be sorry!

I have spent a long time trying to get this going. I even used
dropline-installer to upgrade to gnome2. Still I suffer the
same problem with eclipse, but I now realise it's linked to
the gtk.

I even reinstalled X to clear out the fonts directories including
TTF but it made no difference at all.

It is a real messy situation and I think that time-wise I'm best
to reinstall. I've wasted a lot of time fiddling when I could have
been studying! Very frustrating stuff.

I'll bump up to slack 9.0 and make sure I don't mess with anything
unless I'm 100% crystal clear how to get back in 5 minutes with
little fuss. Guess I just learnt that lesson the hard way...

Thanks,

Ben