[nzlug] Anti-aliasing gone in Evolution message display

[Ian McDonald]

On 11/27/06, Vik Olliver <vik at econz.co.nz> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 13:09 +1300, Ian McDonald wrote:
> > On 11/27/06, Vik Olliver <vik at econz.co.nz> wrote:
> > > Since my last reboot (blasted Skype again) my anti-aliasing has gone
> > > from any font I select for message display in Evolution.
> > >
> > Just curious why you need to reboot for Skype on Linux?
>
> Oh, you don't have to have a need. Skype does it for you. Regularly.
>
> Actually it tends to just lock the machine up to the point where you can
> ping it but sod all else works (including keyboard lights). It has this
> habit of killing timers that don't belong to it. A good way to crash a
> Linux box running the latest Skype is to try and attach a video call to
> it from a Mac. Don't be running anything important on the Mac at the
> time, either...
>
Is it dead to ssh into the box? And then kill off the skype process -
does it come right then?

If not then log a bug against the kernel or your distro as us kernel
developers are keen to see things like this not stop the kernel!

Is the CPU running at 100% - if so is it Skype or something else like X?

Ian
-- 
Ian McDonald
Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4
Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com
WAND Network Research Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Waikato
New Zealand