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makosmos

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Registered: 2019-12-25

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[Solved] Awesome display trouble

Hi,

I'm trying to run awesome on my fresh installation of Arch.
Everything seems to work properly except the text displayed by awesome:
https://i.ibb.co/jH1sbsx/image0-4030.jpg

As you can see, every character is displayed by numbers contained in a rectangle

I first though it was an issue with X11 but it doesn't seems to be the case since xterm can display text without any troubles (there is no text on the picture because the xterm window is over exposed)

Thanks for help

Mod Edit - Replaced oversized image with link.
CoC - Pasting pictures and code

Last edited by makosmos (2020-04-14 14:03:34)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [Solved] Awesome display trouble

Which fonts have you installed and how have you configured awesome to use them?

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makosmos

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Registered: 2019-12-25

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Re: [Solved] Awesome display trouble

I've installed terminus-font and all the fonts installed with the package xorg but I didn't configure anything about awesome, I've just copy paste the rc.lua into ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua since I've read that it worked out of the box

Last edited by makosmos (2020-04-14 13:11:45)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [Solved] Awesome display trouble

all the fonts installed with the package xorg

It's a group rather than a package and it only pulls in the X.Org 75 & 100 DPI bitmap fonts.

I've just copy paste the rc.lua into ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua

The default theme seems to call the sans alias, what is that on your system?

fc-match sans

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makosmos

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Re: [Solved] Awesome display trouble

The command

fc-match sans

returned a font named Adobe something

I've fixed the text display issue by then installing the FreeSans font (gnu-free-fonts package),

Thanks a lot for your help Head_on_a_Stick !

Trilby

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Re: [Solved] Awesome display trouble

This should likely be considered a packaging bug: awesome should depend on ttf-font.

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