Do you have the konsole fonts package installed? Package: xfonts-konsole Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 92 Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney <ccheney@debian.org> Source: kdebase Version: 4:3.0.3-1 Replaces: konsole (<< 4:3.0.0) Conflicts: konsole (<< 4:3.0.0) Description: Konsole xfonts Konsole xfonts -- sig = 0xda1e;