[NTLUG:Discuss] karpski screen muckup

[Steve Baker]

"Michael B. Lee" wrote:
> 
> So...
> 
> Anyone out there in the mood to field a dumb question? I'm a real knob
> when it comes to X (don't know my way around it too well). And I was just
> playing around with karpski (yeah, I know Ethereal is way better, but I
> still wanted to give it a go). And this is what I get:
> 
> http://bigfat.soaringpenguin.com/karpski_shot.jpg
> 
> You can see how where there's supposed to be text (e.g. menu items, option
> buttons, etc) there's just those squares.

Euwww!  Weird.

This is a *wild* guess - but just in case you don't get a better answer, this
is where *I* would start in diagnosing it....

It looks like it's trying to use a font that you don't have installed
and is not doing the proper fall-back to a standard font in the event that
it can't find it.

If you have the sources, you might try grepping for a likely string that
would give you the name of the font it's hunting for so you can go get it
from the net somewhere and install it.

If you don't have the sources handy, you could try running 'strings' on
the executable (that extracts all the likely-looking ASCII strings from
a binary file) - and grepping the output of that for something that might
be a font name.

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