From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 9 23:53:47 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E581065675 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 23:53:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dickey@saltmine.radix.net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (saltmine.radix.net [207.192.128.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 622448FC13 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 23:53:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dickey@saltmine.radix.net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id n19NeqfP023734; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:40:52 -0500 (EST) Received: (from dickey@localhost) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id n19NeqU4023733; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:40:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:40:52 -0500 From: Thomas Dickey To: "Marc G. Fournier" Message-ID: <20090209234052.GA21597@saltmine.radix.net> References: <20090209191710.P90262@hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jRHKVT23PllUwdXP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090209191710.P90262@hub.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg 7.4: "button" fonts unreadable ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:53:47 -0000 --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:28:58PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >=20 > Have searched Google, but haven't been able to find anything that either= =20 > worked, or was relevant ... I just cleaned out and reinstalled all of my= =20 > ports ... when I load up an xterm (the one I'm working in right now), all= =20 > the text in it is fine and readable ... but, the top of the xterm, where= =20 > it has the 'xterm icon' and some writing to the right of it, the writing= =20 > is unreadable ... Basically, the xorg hackers decided to improve your user experience by lobotomizing the fonts - I modified xterm to recover from that by falling back to "fixed" (I'm unsure why they left that intact). However, window titles are owned by your window manager. =20 > If I load up firefox3, the web pages are viewable and readable, but stuff= =20 > like the location bar are unreadable (I have to hope I type without makin= g=20 > a mistake) ... >=20 > I'm not sure what to look at ... have checked the output from starting X,= =20 > and not seeing anything font related ... Best advice is to locate the "misc" fonts (or whatever it's called in FreeBSD) and install those. That'll work until the next improvement to the X server's font handling. --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFJkL8CtIqByHxlDocRAsYKAJ9rE0bkBHwgf0fspdDpjCdNpRObxwCgoZeq 75YSbwx1qFKtF19ehh52rA8= =ACdz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP--