[olug] font problem in X

[Tim & Alethea Larson]

I can't get fonts to display in X.  When I boot up, all the characters 
in the gdm greeter are boxes.  If I log in anyway, an xterm will display 
real characters in its window, but not gnome-terminal or icons or any UI 
chrome.  It's like I'm missing a font it's trying to use, but I don't 
know what it would be or where that is configured.  When I open a text 
editor and manage to get to the font chooser, every entry in the list is 
just boxes.  That makes me think TT fonts aren't working (xterm probably 
using a console font), but I can see in the Xorg log that it's building 
a font path that contains the fonts I have installed.  So... I am not 
sure what to check next.  Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks,
Tim
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Tim & Alethea
christtrek.org