xmgrace menus contains boxes instead of letters when running on tightvnc

[shepherdguy]

Binary package hint: grace

~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

~$ apt-cache policy grace
grace:
  Installed: 1:5.1.22-8build1

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I expected menus to have words on them instead of boxes.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: grace 1:5.1.22-8build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.40-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 28 15:47:43 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=bash
SourcePackage: grace

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Very odd. I can't reproduce this on Maverick/Natty. Have you managed to get Grace working in previous versions of Ubuntu?

[shepherdguy (vaughn-solarword)]

Thank you. This was running under tightvnc. I installed vnc4server and it
works fine. Must be an issue with the fonts used by the vnc server.

Vaughn

On 11/29/2010 1:13 AM, Alex Valavanis wrote:
> Very odd. I can't reproduce this on Maverick/Natty. Have you managed
> to get Grace working in previous versions of Ubuntu?
>
> ** Changed in: grace (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
>

[Nicola Ferralis (feranick)]

This should be marked invalid for grace, since it's a problem with tightvnc.

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Reassigning to vnc per earlier comment