On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 03:44:52PM -0500, Dave Wagler wrote: > I now have XFCE installed. Almost. It starts,the wallpaper and desktop > icons are there, the mouse works, the keyboard is recognized. The problem > is that instead of alphanum characters on the screen, there are just a > whole lot of little rectangles. What did I miss? > No text at all ?
If you are using modern fonts (truetype, or opentype) you need to install more fonts. See the page on Xorg-7.7 Testing and Configuration at the end of chapter 24, the section Xft Font Protocol. I first started seeing blank rectangles in the gnome-2 days, typically they turned out to be for things like non-breaking spaces. Actually, in most fonts the rectangle contains the hex digits for the missing glyph - but they are too small to read. At a minimum, people reading English will want the DejaVu fonts. For more on fonts, once you have a working pdf reader please look at the examples in my ntlworld website : http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zarniwhoop (the "font analyis" link) on that BLFS page. I will guess that XFCE needs Xft fonts and you haven't installed any of them. > Also what's the best way to autostart XFCE when I login? Thanks. > Dave Google for "run startx at login" and look at the link to the Arch wiki. Or build your display manager of choice. Note that both alternatives _might_ cause pain when you upgrade part of xorg or part of xfce. For DMs you can drop back to a tty in runlevel 3 - if you only run the desktop in runlevel 5. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
