Re: X fonts problems. nothing available for helvetica

[Torsten Hilbrich <Torsten.Hilbrich@gmx.net>]

"Alan Bailward" <alan@northco.net> writes:

> Hi there.  Appologies for re-hashing this.
> 
> Just upgraded my system for the first time in a couple of months
> with slink.  Everything mostly went right, but I have had some
> problems with X.  When starting it, my windowmanager (windowmaker)
> complains with a message like:
> 
> Can't load font -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*. Trying fixed.
> 

I have the following xfonts installed:

~$ dpkg -l xfonts\*     
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  xfonts-100dpi   3.3.2.3a-8.1   100 dpi fonts for X servers
ii  xfonts-75dpi    3.3.2.3a-8.1   75 dpi fonts for X servers
ii  xfonts-base     3.3.2.3a-8.1   standard fonts for X servers
ii  xfonts-pex      3.3.2.3a-8.1   fonts for minimal PEX support in X servers
ii  xfonts-scalable 3.3.2.3a-8.1   scalable fonts for X servers

Please check your packages, some of them might be missing.

	Torsten

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