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Just wanted to share this fix. <br><br>
I reinstalled Fedora 7 on my server from scratch and included the most
current stable release of myth. Following Jarod Wilson's directions to
the letter, once the installation was complete, I fired up mythtv-setup
for the first time. To my surprise all I got was a background, the icon,
and no menu items. The same problem occurred when I ran
mythfrontend. <br><br>
After playing around with the cursor keys I noted that the menu items
were indeed on the screen but were invisible. To make matters worse the
mouse was also not visible. <br><br>
It turns out that the XML theme used by both these programs requires the
Arial true type font and neither Fedora 7 nor myth supplies it in their
respective base installations. <br><br>
I found this simple set of directions to add in a base set of true type
fonts (which includes Ariel) to Fedora 7 and it solved the problem.
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1. Open a Terminal and cd to a directory you can work in<br><br>
2. Become root<br><br>
3. Download the MS Core Fonts Smart Package File<br><br>
<i>wget
<a href="http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec" eudora="autourl">
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec</a><br><br>
</i>4. Make sure that the rpm-build and cabextract packages are
installed<br><br>
<i>yum install rpm-build cabextract<br><br>
</i>5. Build the Core Fonts package:<br><br>
<i>rpmbuild -ba msttcorefonts-2.0-1.spec<br><br>
</i>6. Install the Core Fonts package<br><br>
<i>rpm -Uvh
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm<br><br>
</i>The web site I found this one was:
<a href="http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installfonts" eudora="autourl">
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installfonts</a><br><br>
Good luck,<br><br>
-- Mache</body>
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