Then use whichever tool has a font selection dialog :) On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 5:18 PM Leo Pound Singer <lpsin...@umd.edu> wrote:
> gnome-specimen is not in buster. It has been removed from Debian. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 10, 2019, at 16:46, Michael Stapelberg <stapelb...@debian.org> > wrote: > > That’s weird. Something must be different in your system, though, as this > is the first time anyone has ever reported this issue. > > Can you check gnome-specimen and see if fonts show up correctly there? Can > you try using them with i3 and see if that works in general? > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 7:41 PM Leo Pound Singer <lpsin...@umd.edu> wrote: > >> No, all of the packages recommended by i3-wm are installed. >> >> On Jan 10, 2019, at 12:25, Michael Stapelberg <stapelb...@debian.org> >> wrote: >> >> Did you disable apt recommendations? The i3-wm package >> recommends fonts-dejavu-core, which should be picked up as a suitable font. >> Do you have that package installed? >> >> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 5:48 PM Leo Singer <leo.sin...@ligo.org> wrote: >> >>> Package: i3 >>> Version: 4.16-1 >>> Severity: normal >>> >>> Dear Maintainer, >>> >>> I installed i3 under Debian Buster (armhf) on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. With >>> the >>> automatically generated configuration file, the i3 title and status bars >>> are >>> blank. >>> >>> I found that I could get the title and status bar text to show up by >>> employing >>> the workaround of uncommenting the following font option in >>> ~/.config/i3/config: >>> >>> font -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-iso10646-1 >>> >>> I do not know if this issue also occurs on more commonplace amd64 >>> systems. >>> >>> Would you please modify the package so that the title and status bar >>> text are >>> visible with the default, automatically generated i3 config file? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Leo >>> >>> >>> >>> -- System Information: >>> Debian Release: buster/sid >>> APT prefers testing >>> APT policy: (500, 'testing') >>> Architecture: armhf (armv7l) >>> >>> Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-armmp (SMP w/4 CPU cores) >>> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C >>> (charmap=UTF-8) >>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash >>> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) >>> LSM: AppArmor: enabled >>> >>> Versions of packages i3 depends on: >>> ii i3-wm 4.16-1 >>> >>> Versions of packages i3 recommends: >>> ii dunst 1.3.2-1 >>> ii i3lock 2.11.1-1 >>> ii i3status 2.12-1 >>> ii suckless-tools 44-1 >>> >>> i3 suggests no packages. >>> >>> -- no debconf information >>> >> >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Michael >> >> > > -- > Best regards, > Michael > > -- Best regards, Michael
