Font werror when starting xclock and other x-apps.

[PackRat]

Font error -

Xcalc and xclock were suddenly slow to start so I started them from a terminal. Anyone seen this font error before and have a quick fix:



I tried updating the font cache but that didn't seem to work.

This is actually my slackel box, so an update to a slackware package may have just broke something.

[lwfitz]

Check this out packrat
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2013-02/msg00002.html

Actually seems to be a locale issue, maybe?

[hakerdefo]

@lwfitz is right. It is most likely a locale related issue. Here is a link to a bit old but very useful page,

http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/fonts/common-linux-font-problems.html

Cheers!!!

[PackRat]

Thanks - yes, appears to be a locale issue -- with slackware in this instance.

Placing:

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export LANG=en_US.utf8
export LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8
export LINGUAS=en_US.utf8
export LC_ALL=en_US.utf8

at the beginning of my ~/.bashrc appears to be a good work around for now.