[plt-scheme] drscheme fonts 2 : oh for Heaven's sake...

From: John Clements (clements at brinckerhoff.org)
Date: Sat Jan 30 02:10:56 EST 2010

To see whether the problem with my DrScheme + VNC fonts was my minimal setup, I just set up a fresh server with Ubuntu Hardy + GNOME, and built DrScheme from source.  This is what the menu bar looked like:

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The fonts were so hideously borked that I couldn't even read the menus. It makes me cry. Honestly, there's got to be something obvious going on here.  I also tried installing it using ubuntu's package manager, and the results were the same.

Ah well; time to give up on DrScheme using VNC.

John

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