Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 10:29:21 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Terri Sinclair <tksinclair@earthlink.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Question about your book. Message-ID: <20010218102921.I21615@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <000e01c0991a$dc8ecf40$556a1d26@terri>; from tksinclair@earthlink.net on Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 11:50:16AM -0800 References: <000e01c0991a$dc8ecf40$556a1d26@terri>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Your paragraphs are all single lines, and up to 343 characters wide. On Saturday, 17 February 2001 at 11:50:16 -0800, Terri Sinclair wrote: > Please forgive the interruption. I recently purchased the FreeBSD > Power Pac and it came with your book. It's an excellent book but I > find the installation menus vary slightly from what the book says to > expect. Nevertheless, I got BSD up and running, but I am facing one > vexing problem that perhaps you can help with: > > Every window manager I try displays the fonts as garbled lines. All > my monitor settings and video card settings are correct and when I > open an editor in KDE, (or Gnome or WindowMaker) the font it uses to > display what I write displays correctly. It's only the fonts used in > the menus and the window bars that are garbled. Every wm is like > this. > > I've been around Linux and Unix for over a year now, so I think I > have a fair understanding of setting up XFree86 with the equipment I > have.. but I'm out of ideas... > > Hope you can help.. Not really. That's why, on page 15, I recommend asking FreeBSD-questions. I've copied them; maybe somebody else has seen it before. My best bet is that you didn't install all the correct fonts. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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