[R] Fedora 10 KDE plasma font rendering issue

[José Matos]

On Tuesday 31 March 2009 21:02:23 dfermin wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I've got a new workstation running Fedora 10 linux and I use the KDE 4.2
> desktop which uses some kind of new desktop environment called 'plasma'.
>
> If I start up R and generate a plot (for example: hist(rnorm(10000, mean=0,
> sd=1), breaks=100) ). The plot appears but all text (the x/y axes, title,
> etc..) is replaced by a square box. No font is rendered at all.
>
> Has anyone else got this problem? If so do you have a work around or a
> solution?

What graphics card do you have?

I saw recently reports about this happening on grace when using intel graphic 
cards. I am starting to suspect that this could be the same problem.

> I'm using R version 2.8.1 installed from the Fedora 10 repositories if that
> helps.
>
> Thanks in advance.

-- 
José Abílio