Re: Fonts in Icewm, but not elsewhere, messed up

[Michael Waters <stonin@rogers.com>]

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 16:23 -0500, Kent West wrote:
> After an upgrade on my Sid box a month or so ago, some of the fonts in 
> Icewm, like on the taskbar and the logout dialog window, have turned 
> into what I can only describe as ASCII chars. I've seen no problems 
> elsewhere. Thinking it was just some sort of instability in the unstable 
> branch, I switched over to KDE temporarily. I've also tried other wm's, 
> like XFWM/XFCE. No problems anywhere except Icewm.
> 
> Then a day or two ago I updated another Sid box, and it wound up NOT 
> having the font problems in Icewm. So that made me go "hmmm". Back to 
> the first box I went, and I deleted my ~/.ice* directories. No change. I 
> logged in as a different user; still had the font problems. I created a 
> brand new user; still had the font problems. I did an "apt-get remove 
> -purge icewm", followed by "apt-get install icewm". Still had the font 
> problem. I played with the font entries in XF86Config-4. Still had font 
> problems. I moved XF86Config-4 out of the way and created a new one via 
> "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86". Still had font problems. I swapped 
> video cards (of course, entailing a power-off), created a new 
> XF86Config-4, purged icewm, created a new user, and still had font problems.
> 
> OK, where's the problem? Or how do I troubleshoot this further?

Hi, icewm rocks. :)  I recently struggled with the same problem... for
me, the fix was `dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig` and choose to allow
bitmapped fonts.  Or you can also edit /etc/fonts/local.conf and
uncomment or insert the line: <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>

If this doesn't fix it, there was a thread here last week with subject
"fonts messed up after dist-upgrade" that explains fixes for
XF86Config-4 and xfs config file fixes as well.

Hope this helps,
Michael