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Title: Font werror when starting xclock and other x-apps.
Post by: PackRat on March 20, 2014, 01:46:06 PM

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:

(http://s21.postimg.org/f1l1kw2vn/March_1395322254_1600x900.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/f1l1kw2vn/)

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.

Title: Re: Font werror when starting xclock and other x-apps.
Post by: lwfitz on March 20, 2014, 04:34:09 PM

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

Actually seems to be a locale issue, maybe?

Title: Re: Font werror when starting xclock and other x-apps.
Post by: hakerdefo on March 20, 2014, 05:17:45 PM

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

Cheers!!!

Title: Re: Font werror when starting xclock and other x-apps.
Post by: PackRat on March 20, 2014, 07:43:30 PM

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.

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