On 12/18/2016 09:28 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > 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 >
I hate font problems... Did you install any fonts manually? Was the font cache stale? Dan