[ubuntu] Menu problems for Compiz Fusion

[Whisp3r]

I put 8.04 with Compiz on this box, and OO works just fine. Oh well. We'll see how it all works when I get done building my first computer.

[mfaust731]

I have Ibex with the nvidia 96 driver and have the same thing, however open office works fine here - it is Scribus and google earth that has blank menus>

[Alan A]

I have found a workaround which partially solves this problem for OpenOffice. If I set fonts to Subpixel (System/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts) I get my OpenOffice text and menus back with compiz enabled. Unfortunately other KDE apps are still without text.

I found this at http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122695 where the author also suggests making some changes to the xorg.conf file. The xorg.conf changes did not seem to make any difference for me - only the font setting change.

[Malac]

Originally Posted by Alan A I have found a workaround which partially solves this problem for OpenOffice. If I set fonts to Subpixel (System/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts) I get my OpenOffice text and menus back with compiz enabled. Unfortunately other KDE apps are still without text. I found this at http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122695 where the author also suggests making some changes to the xorg.conf file. The xorg.conf changes did not seem to make any difference for me - only the font setting change.

I can confirm the above workaround works for me in OpenOffice and also the tip for wine.
Make sure you close the QuickStarter if you use it as the changes don't show up until it is restarted.

[SocratesTNR]

Been having problems on OO, Ubuntu 8, NVIDA card (I think - noob).

Turning off anti-aliasing in OO worked although the result isn't pretty.

Sub-pixel thing didn't

[jhutton]

Originally Posted by Alan A I have found a workaround which partially solves this problem for OpenOffice. If I set fonts to Subpixel (System/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts) I get my OpenOffice text and menus back with compiz enabled. Unfortunately other KDE apps are still without text. I found this at http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122695 where the author also suggests making some changes to the xorg.conf file. The xorg.conf changes did not seem to make any difference for me - only the font setting change.

Thanks - these steps fixed it for me.

[lemming465]

We're discussing this on launchpad as bug 297836. The best workaround so far is to disable Compiz effects using System -> Preferences -> Appearance, Visual Effects = none. It was not a problem in 7.10 or 8.04, but I'm sticking with 8.10 anyway.

[Malac]

This may have already been said but this is obviously a problem with the nVidia driver 93.46.09 and certain (older??) nVidia cards, as I can confirm this is not an issue at all with one of my machines which has an older ATI card, compiz enabled. OpenOffice, Wine menus are fine also all KDE apps are okay.

Hope this helps in tracking it down.

[LepeKaname]

Thank you! It solved my problem.

BTW, I also had the NVIDIA MX 400 ... with the 96 driver.

This was my post with screenshots:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6298098

[Eric Qel-Droma]

I have a GeForce MX 400 as well, and using the nVidia driver, I have either no font or font garbage in Wine whether I have visual effects on or not.

I was thinking of trying the whole workaround posted above, but I'm afraid that my Xorg.conf file is too different from what is posted on the other site. If I were to change my Xorg.conf to mirror the other one exactly, could that break my system? Or, if it were wrong, would my system simply revert to the default driver?

Thanks,

Eric