well. i had to change my video card some hours ago and therefore
tested out that old 'startx' command from the console. and guess
what happened - all the fonts were back to normal again. this
seems to be an issue with gnome (actually gdm) - i've seen those
fonts in gnome-apps too. and i know what made root so special,
that his fonts didn't screw up - he has lang set to en, all the
other accounts (and the new ones too, as defined in /etc/skel)
are having et_EE, which stands for estonian. so this must really
have soemthing to do with the nls stuff. should i translate
blackbox to estonian? =)
well. thanks for your help. knowledge is everything!
IDK wrote:
>
> > and a final thing - does really nobody know what this weird fonts in
> > blackbox are all about (http://www.hot.ee/odt/bbmenu.png)? i posted
> > a question on this previously...
>
> Not sure if this is related or not, but after switching to 0.60.1
> (something to do with translation support?), any non-'iso-8859' fonts
> (according to how they are named in fonts.dir) were not recognized by
> blackbox, at least with the default english translation. I had some
> fonts I had named 'unknown' (not sure why)... worked in previous
> versions, but when I tried using one of those now, it would end up
> using a default value.
>
> I never bothered to investigate too far... just ended up renaming
> them, though I suppose they might not have been completely compliant.
>
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