On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:10:04AM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > Dear all, > > I recently moved from Debian sarge to Debian etch (which imply xorg as > default X). Now the screen looks orible, with ugly fonts and stuff. I > have the same fonts installed and the same configuration so I don't > know what is wrong. Is this fvwm related or is an X problem? In any > case, any ideas where to look for the problem?
It'll be your X11 config file that's broken, or more specifically I suspect you'll need to reorder your FontPath lines in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, the locations of where fonts are have changed in the more recent version of X11. For reference, here's mine: http://rafb.net/p/HOJY9H18.html (Yes, I've retained the older directories as being listed; the newer ones are of course those under /usr/share/fonts/* > Second, all not ascii caracters from menus dissapeard. How can I bring > it back? Example: "fa????" shows as "fa", "m??re??te/mic??oreaz??" shows as > "mrete/micoreaz". In the past I had to recompile fvwm to take out > asian stuff in order to get a working version for my systems. Do I > still have to do that? Besides the ascii glyphs I need fvwm do display > U+0102, U+0103, U+00CE, U+00EE, U+00C2, U+00E2, U+0218, U+0219, > U+021A, U+021B, U+201E, U+201C, U+00AB, U+00BB. Those characters are > replaced with two or three question marks in the name of the window > titles and they simply vanish from the menus. All config files are > written in UTF-8. Again this is symptomatic of the fonts, as well as likely faulty LocalePath. Do your menu entries make use of: $[gt.string] > I try to download the latest version of fvwm (fvwm-2.4.20) to install > it by hand by configure hangs with some errors (X11 libraries or > header files could not be found). Anyone knows what to feed to > "apt-get install" for this to work? (libx11-dev is installed, what > else is missing?) I also try the latest unstable (fvwm-2.5.21). > configure gives the same error. You need xlibs-dev installed for this to work, and a FVWM version of 2.5.21 wouldn't go amiss -- indeed, downloading the source and doing: make deb-inplace Would generate a .deb file which would then be installable, as per the FVWM wiki page: http://fvwmwiki.bu-web.de/Installation/InstallationPackages -- Thomas Adam -- "Wanting to feel; to know what is real. Living is a lie." -- Purpoise Song, by The Monkees.
