xfce + text display problems

[Christopher_Law]

thanks to everyone that contributed, all is running great now and I am
amazed with how quick the members of this mailing list were to respond to my
question



-----Original Message-----
From: xfce-admin at moongroup.com [mailto:xfce-admin at moongroup.com]On
Behalf Of Patrick Wiseman
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 11:44 AM
To: xfce at moongroup.com
Subject: RE: xfce + text display problems


I did it by trial and error when the same thing happened to me.  Then I
stopped messing with fonts in XFce!

Patrick

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Christopher_Law wrote:

> this might work but I cant see the options
> is it just kinda trial and error, or can this be edited in a file
somewhere?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xfce-admin at moongroup.com [mailto:xfce-admin at moongroup.com]On
> Behalf Of Patrick Wiseman
> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 9:50 AM
> To: xfce at moongroup.com
> Subject: Re: xfce + text display problems
>
>
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Christopher_Law wrote:
>
> > When I started up X all the text displayed as blocks [][][][][], but
> > any apps started from an xconsole would display fine.
>
> I had this happen a few weeks ago.  Go to setup (the pallette icon on the
> panel), select XFce, and go down to "Font style".  Select "Browse".  You
> may find that all the text in there appears as little boxes.   At least in
> my case, that was because the font selector was defaulting to iso10646-1
> instead of iso8859-1.  What you'll need to do is move down about 5 places
> in the "Font Style:" box and then select the "OK" button.  You may need to
> experiment a bit to get text back!
>
> hth
>
> Patrick
>
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