Possible Font Problem With CentOS 7

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Hi,

I’ve got a possible font problem with a fully updated CentOS 7 system.

An example with the man command.

#man kill

Should return the following

KILL(1) User Commands KILL(1)

NAME
kill – terminate a process

SYNOPSIS
kill [-s signal|-p] [-q sigval] [-a] [–] pid…
kill -l [signal]

but what I actually get is the following

KILL(1) User Commands KILL(1)

kill – terminate a process

[ signal| ] [ sigval] [ ] [ ] pid…
[signal]

Notice the missing text.

If I select the text and paste it into an editor I see the missing text. So it’s there just not displaying on the screen.

I also notice the effect with links embedded in e-mails. I use evolution. Embedded links do not appear in the e-mail but if I hover over a link location then it appears in the text box at the bottom of the page and I can select it.

I suspect I’m missing some common font(s).

Any ideas.

Regards,

Tony

4 thoughts on - Possible Font Problem With CentOS 7

  • This is caused by the colour profile settings in your terminal program (gnome-terminal, mate-terminal, whatever).

    Edit-Prefrences-Colors

    I generally just check “use colors from system theme” but I suppose that would depend on what you’re using for a system theme. But the setting you need to fix is under Text and Background Color.

  • Greetings from Cork.

    What terminal emulator are you using? Assuming it’s gnome-terminal (the default), what is the output of the commands

    gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name

    and

    fc-match monospace

    ?

  • On Wed, 2019-11-06 at 13:57 -0600,

    Thanks, that sorted the terminal problem. Now for the e-mail problem.

    Regards,

    Tony

  • ‘Monospace 11’

    DejaVuSansMono.ttf: “DejaVu Sans Mono” “Book”

    I got the solution for the terminal problem. It was a setting in the terminal preferences settings which I had unticked. So now for the e-mail problem. This I assume is also a preferences problem with either my theme selection or with evoloution itself.

    Thanks for the reply,

    Tony