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amishxxx

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Registered: 2012-03-10

Posts: 23

[Solved] Broken font in terminal when using startx

Hey guys,
a couple a days ago i decided to get rid of Slim. Now I am starting my x-server with

startx

.
When ever I start the x-server manually I have broken fonts in my terminal (it's doesn't matter if i use fish shell or bash).

Image-broken font
Image-working font

My /etc/vconsole.conf looks as follows:

KEYMAP=de-latin1-nodeadkeys
FONT=lat2-16

My .xinitrc looks as follows:

exec i3

Did anybody experience the same?
I can't figure out what slim is doing differently then manually calling

startx

after logging in.

Regards micah

Last edited by amishxxx (2016-08-21 02:43:18)

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: London

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 7,732

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Re: [Solved] Broken font in terminal when using startx

My .xinitrc looks as follows:

exec i3

Try adding this above the "exec i3" line:

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
 for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*.sh ; do
  [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
 done
 unset f
fi

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#xinitrc

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amishxxx

Member

Registered: 2012-03-10

Posts: 23

Re: [Solved] Broken font in terminal when using startx

Hey Head_on_a_Stick,
sorry I did't forget to mention that I tried that code snipped form the Wiki before but it doesn't change anything.
I just figured out if i open a shell as root I don't seem to have any problems?

Doesn't make any sense to me.

Regards micah

amishxxx

Member

Registered: 2012-03-10

Posts: 23

Re: [Solved] Broken font in terminal when using startx

Hey guys,
I fell kind of stupid but anyways maybe it will help somebody with the same problem in the future. I figured out that somehow my locale.conf is not getting used and because of that my LANG environment variable was not set right so now I made sure that it's getting set on login.

Here is the following snipped for my fish shell.

if status --is-login
        set -x LANG en_US.utf8
end

Now everything works fine again.
@ Head_on_a_Stick Thanks again for the help.

Regards micah

sherrellbc

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Registered: 2014-05-26

Posts: 112

Re: [Solved] Broken font in terminal when using startx

I figured out that somehow my locale.conf is not getting used and because of that my LANG environment variable was not set ...

Do you have an /etc/locale.conf?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/be … ide#Locale