On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > Done. Still no joy.
Thanks Jorge