On 12/18/2016 07:25 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > The logs complain about helvetica, and I found similar stuff in the > net (not necessarilly about xterm). This appears to be a font problem, > which is essentially voodoo to me. xterm crashing instead of just > failing to bring up the menu seems to be an xterm bug indeed, but the > real problem is what to do to solve the missing fonts problem. >
Try installing liberation-fonts and enabling them with `eselect fontconfig`. I had all sorts of display problems with Helvetica in Firefox until I added that package. This doesn't explain why it needs it though. Dan
