Gtk based applications not working right

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On May 7, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Vishwajit Kolathur <ajit.kolathur at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm new to macports, i've been using it for a month or so, i've been having trouble with a lot of applications that use Gtk. Once i install them, they seem to start start normally on the X11 terminal, but are incapable of showing any text. I faced this problem after installing two applications, Wireshark and Gedit.
> Both of them give almost the same error messages.
> I tried searching for existing complaints & solutions, looks like i couldn't phrase my search well enough to find anything.

You may want to repost this to macports-users, since this is a development list and not a support list. You might find more GTK-saavy folks there, as well.

vq