Re: Gnome 1.4 characters display as rectangles

[Robert Jenssen <robertjenssen ozemail com au>]

Hi,

Thanks to those who replied to my question about fonts. I was using
Xfree86 v4.1 and the xfs supplied with same. I found that if I started
gnome as a different user (root) gnome fonts appeared fine. A little
poking about in the control-centre revealed that I had asked for a
Unicode font. Change it back to iso8859 and problem solved. (Of course,
not being able to read the menus meant a few goes were needed.)

Rob

> 
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 11:06:21PM +1000 or thereabouts, Robert Jenssen wrote:
> > I am trying to install Gnome 1.4 using the stable source .tar.gz's and
> > following the instructions on the gnome.org "Downloading source" page,
> ....
> > the Gnome menus and widgets displayed characters OK. I then tried to
> > changethe font in the control-center. Subsequently, characters in Gnome
> > menus and widgets are displayed as small rectangles instead of characters.