[Scribus] display issue

[Peter Linnell]

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 23:28, Subash Jeyan wrote:
> hi,
> 
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:11:22 +0530
> Subash Jeyan <nsjeyan at vsnl.net> wrote:
> 
> > running scribus 0.9.9 on mdk 9. when i first start scribus the menus
> > are all anti-aliased and look fine. from the second run onwards the
> > anti-aliasing is gone. if i delete the .scribus directory and run the
> > program again, the anti-aliasing is back, only to disappear from the
> > next run again. the text in the Measurements palette, however, remains
> > anti-aliased throughout.
> > 
> > when run for the first time from the console, i get the following
> > error message:
> > 
> > fcntl: Bad file descriptor
> > fcntl: Bad file descriptor
> > 
> > this message doesn't appear on subsequent running of the program. any
> > hints as to what is going on?
> 
> apologies for quoting myself but i just solved this issue. i upgraded to
> mdk 9.1 (xfree 4.3 and qt 3.1.1) and compiled the latest version of qt
> (3.1.2) from sources. the problem was still there, except for the
> absence of the error message, as T-MAN had said.
> 
> on mdk systems xinerama header files are in
> /usr/X11R6/include/X11/extensions (i don't know whether this is where
> it is normally installed) and scribus wasn't seeing the headers. once
> you run:
> 
> ./configure --with-xinerama
> --with-extra-includes=/usr/X11R6/include/X11/extensions
> 
> the headers are included and antialiasing, for the menus, is working
> fine. running the latest cvs. thanks everybody.
> 
> regards, subash.

Thanks for the report and the solution. Are you running xinerama with
dual displays? And if so, was Scribus working properly before with the
dual displays?

Regards,

Peter
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Peter Linnell <scribusdocs at atlantictechsolutions.com>