[olug] font problem in X

[Kevin]

Count the number of boxes. Does this number match the number of
letters in the corresponding place on a working system? If it doesn't,
then you might have a Unicode issue.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 21:02, Tim & Alethea Larson <thelarsons3 at cox.net> wrote:
> 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
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