Re: [gentoo-user] xterm menu

[Daniel Frey]

On 12/18/2016 09:28 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.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