From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 5 11:49:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9AA937B403 for ; Sun, 5 May 2002 11:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp6-215.ath.forthnet.gr Bernie_X@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [213.16.153.215] by smtp-send.myrealbox.com with Novell NIMS $Revision: 2.88.1.1 $ on Novell NetWare; Sun, 05 May 2002 12:49:39 -0600 Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 20:32:55 +0300 (EEST) From: Bernie X-X-Sender: root@BLAST To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: X11 font problem Message-ID: <20020505202821.I242-100000@BLAST> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, i got x11 and seems to work ok appart from one thing. in many cases, it does't display characters correctly. for example if i run abiword and hit the about box, i can't read anything in there. all i get is little squares instead of characters. this also happens with xchat that i tried today. is there some known setting? or do i have to get a particular font from ports/x11 and install it? i was thinking to try all the fonts in there but they are quite large and would take ages to d/l from a 56k connection... thanx for your help. Regards, Bernie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message