Re: basic font problem

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Shane McAndrew <test1dellboy3 yahoo co uk> writes:

> Other X applications (such as emacs) can display all
> the characters in the file with the standard font
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-*-*-*-c-70-iso8859-1.
> So I have concluded it is not an X windows problem. Am
> I right?

Yes, newer GTK+ apps don't use the X core fonts. You probably just
need to add some fonts to your fontconfig setup. Look at /etc/fonts 
and check out the fc-list and fc-cache man-pages


Sven