I experienced the same problem on xubuntu 12.04. Installing the package
gsfonts-x11 alone does not seem to fix the problem, even if it is followed
by a restart. After I installed this package I also had to do a reinstall
of xfig, transfig, and xfig-libs followed by a restart of the system to
make t
I have also experienced this problem after upgrading from jaunty to
karmic (xubuntu 9.04 -> xubuntu 9.10). I have upgraded two different
machines, one with a 64-bit architecture (where this problem does not
show up), and one with a 32-bit architecture where the text is
unreadable on startup. Maximi
