fonts not working in terminals

sfabius · Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2002 8:15 pm Post subject: fonts not working in terminals

I am now, finally, starting X OK, both with IceWM and Gnome. The problem is when I open a terminal (xterm or gnome-terminal), things are wacky. For xterm, the characters are completely incorrect gibberish. In Gnome, the window pops up for a while, then disappears. Any ideas appreciated.

helmers · Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2002 8:39 pm Post subject:

Do you get any output when starting X?

If you use startx to load X, you'll get some info in the console after exiting. How about konsole, or any other terminal? Any other programs have font problems?
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chicklove · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2002 Posts: 5

Not sure if it's the same problem, but konsole is h0rked also...

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=23757&highlight=konsole
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sfabius · Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2002 9:05 pm Post subject:

I was having font problems with IceWM in general, but I fixed font paths in fonts.conf, which solved everything but the terminal problem. I'm away from the computer now, but will try the suggestions on the konsole topic Monday.

Could this be relevant (from X log):

sfabius · Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2002 8:26 pm Post subject:

I also have problems with fonts on buttons and text fields in dialog boxes. It seems that they don't quite fit. The strange thing is that when I enter text into the field, or click the button (or mouse over entered text in an xterm for that matter) the text is displayed correctly.