Peter Evans <peter@despammed.com> さんは書きました:
I'm afraid that you're going to have to use (or at least be about to use) Mozilla mail.
Type something in the "Subject:" box. Move the cursor to the start of the resulting line of text. Hit delete a few times. You'll get a kind of mess where the characters were at the end of the string, so what was
World domination
and should now be
ld domination
is now
ld dominationnnn
I can't reproduce that with the mozilla 1.2.1 from in SuSE 8.2. When I tried the above, it behaved correctly.
or similar (the phantom characters at the end are sometimes clear, sometimes not). Now move the cursor outside this line (e.g. to the message area) and the mess may or may not disappear.
Could this perhaps be font-related?
I think it could be font related. I remember I had such problems with the old Netscape 4.x with certain font settings, although I didn't yet see such effects with Mozilla.
No, probably not -- I'm not aware of ever having consciously chosen a font to use in that part of Mozilla, but anyway it's a sans-serif monospaced font, very unlike the serif monospaced font in which I'm now typing this. The former seems to be the same font that's used for the menus of Mozilla mail and the Mozilla browser ("Go" "Bookmarks", "Tools", etc.), and for the URL window of the Mozilla browser.
The font used for the menus in Mozilla cannot (as far as I know) be setup via the preferences dialog, the only way I know to change the font for the menus of Mozilla is to create a ~/.gtkrc file and define a fontset in there. For example like this: mfabian@magellan:~$ cat .gtkrc style "gtk-default" { fontset = "-efont-biwidth-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-p-120-iso10646-1,-*-*-medium-r-normal--24-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" # fontset = "-efont-biwidth-medium-r-normal--16-160-75-75-p-80-iso10646-1,-*-*-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" } class "GtkWidget" style "gtk-default" mfabian@magellan:~$ This example uses fonts from efont-unicode.rpm, you need to have this package installed if you want to use this example exactly as is. And 24 pixel is of course really huge and only makes sense if you have at least 1600x1200 pixels on your monitor, otherwise try the 16 pixel version. Does this have any influence on the behaviour in your case? I tried different font settings for the menus (which does also influence the "Subject:" box in Mozilla mail) but I could not find any setting which gave the effect you observe. It didn't occur with the default settings (when I delete my ~/.gtkrc) either. Anyway, the font handling in this part of Mozilla is due to change very soon, Mozilla in the next version of SuSE Linux will likely use Gtk2 which uses fonts via libXft2/fontconfig which can be setup in ~/.gtkrc-2.0. -- Mike Fabian <mfabian@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。