xorg text and icon rendering issues

[Dan MacDonald]

I'm running the current (early August 2012) OMAP PPA driver under 12.04 on my Pandaboard A4 and I'm still experiencing a few issues with the display of text under various xorg apps that I had in the previous TI OMAP PPA drivers for 12.04.

The most notable issue for me currently is that none of the text on any of the icons under jaaa (the JACK and ALSA audio analyser) gets displayed and also none of the text in the fluxbox panel such as the name of the workspace and the clock gets displayed if you try using its default style although many of the other styles do display the panel text.

A likely related issue with running fluxbox under the current driver (which, like the other issues I mention here doesn't happen with the regular OMAP (open source) xorg driver) is that the icons for both nm-applet and wicd don't display correctly in the fluxbox panel although they do work under KDE.

[Dan MacDonald (allcoms)]

I should note that even with the fluxbox styles that do show then panel text correctly, the nm or wicd icon still doesn't display correctly.

[Dan MacDonald (allcoms)]

Here's what happens when you start nm-applet from the terminal under Fluxbox- doesn't look right to me:

** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area
** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
** Message: using fallback from indicator to GtkStatusIcon
** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area

I also tried compiling the latest stable FOX toolkit just to try out its minimal text editor adie but it turned out all the menus and GUI text was all garbled and unusable.

[Dan MacDonald (allcoms)]

Another display prob under fluxbox occurs when you make the scite text editor full screen. You cannot see the bottom 10 or so lines of text because its obscured by a big grey rectangle covering the lower part of the window that disappears when you unmaximize it.