Re: dot-square font in E after dist-upgrade

[Randy Reames <randy@reames.org>]

Meanwhile, behind the facade of an innocent looking bookstore Nick Croft wrote:
> Just completed the 3 day marathon dist-upgrade.
> All broken packages fixed. Everything working fine!
> EXCEPT
> In xmms, and Enlightenment menus, there is a prob with the font which
> renders each character as a square, made of dots.
> 
> I know that all the font packages were updated, and update-font-alias was run 
> in each font directory.
> 
> Will this fix itself after I restart the x font server(s). I tried 
> checking by starting another display on :1, but I guess that would use the same 
> font server settings.

I had the same thing happen to me the other day. Don't restart X! I
got the error "Can't find font "Fixed"" or something similar.
IIRC I did an "update-fonts-alias" for each font dir.

I did some other fixing of things as well but I believe that solved my
font problem.

Good Luck.
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