> On my machine, if only gsfonts-x11 is installed, then everything is nice.
Not here. > But if only xfonts-100dpi is installed, I get a tiny, unreadable font Also, not here. > It seems that '-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-180-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' does not > exist in xfonts-100dpi, dpkg-query -L xfonts-100dpi | grep helvB18 /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/helvB18.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/helvB18-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz > I think that you should fix font selection, and choose a default font > that will yield reproducible results. Easy for you to say! -- Jamie Zawinski https://www.jwz.org/ https://www.dnalounge.com/

