[mythtv-users] WEIRD mythtv setup problem

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 08/04/2008 11:50 AM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>  > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Fedor Pikus wrote:
> >> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 08/04/2008 01:55 AM, Fedor Pikus wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I did a fresh install of CentOS 5, then installed mythtv, then I run
> >>>> mythtv-setup and I see the background, the icon (wrench), Mythtv on
> >>>> the left, "main" in the top left corner, date in the top right corner,
> >>>> and nothing else.  I wait, nothing shows up.
> >>>>
> >>>> By accident, I click somewhere on the scree, the input selection
> >>>> screen appears. I click somewhere else, the channels screen appears.
> >>>> Eventually I figured out that the setup menu is there, except I can't
> >>>> see any letters. I can scroll up and down with arrow keys and press
> >>>> Enter, and I get one of setup screens (and the letters there are
> >>>> fine).
> >>>>
> >>> Got fonts?  Specifically MS core web fonts.
> >>>
> >> Got lots of fonts but no MS fonts: liberation fonts, Xorg fonts
> >> (100dpi, Type1, truetype). BTW, I found out that the problem is also
> >> present in mythfrontend, but only until I can find the setup menu
> >> (without seeing the text) and change theme from GANT to something else
> >> (I used Blue).
> > You can override various settings on the command-line to mythfrontend
> like:
> >
> > mythfrontend -O ThemePainter=Qt
> >
> > You might try that as a start to see if you have an OpenGL vs. Qt theme
> > issue.  You can check the various settings names in the settings table of
> > the database and if it is a theme issue, override on the command-line to
> see
> > if that is the case.
>
> mythfrontend -O Theme=blue
> mythtv-setup -O Theme=blue
>
> or just install the MS core web fonts, and even G.A.N.T will work.


Do we seriously have a default theme for MythTV that requires the MS core
web fonts to be installed?

Kevin
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