[SOLVED]Xfce4 not displaying any characters.

madeye · 2007-12-30 12:28:44

I got this weird problem with xfce4.
I have an old machine I want to use as a bittorrent client. For this I want to use xfce4 (with azureus).
So now that I've installed xfce4 none of the characters on the screen are shown correctly. They're all just squares?

Thinking I had a font problem, I started going through all my installed fonts, and even installing some extra fonts. None of it helped.

I'm not sure if it is related to the problem, but when I kill X.org there are some messages in the console. They look like this one:

Pango-WARNING **: pango_cairo_font_get_scaled_font called with bad font, expect ugly output.

I've also been trying different settings for the locale, thinking it might be a localization problem. That didn't help either.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?

If there are any config or log files you would like to see, just let me know.

EDIT:
Nevermind. It never stops to amaze me how incredibly stupid I can be.
Pango of course needs the sdl_pango package to function properly! Of course I was under the impression that all dependencies were handled automatically?

Have a nice New Years Eve everyone.

Last edited by madeye (2007-12-30 13:27:46)

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#1 2007-12-30 12:28:44

[SOLVED]Xfce4 not displaying any characters.

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