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

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.

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

Regards,

Tony

On Wed, 06 Nov 2019 19:45:22 +0000 Tony Molloy wrote:

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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

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CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the University of Limerick. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender's email address and know the content is safe. On Wed, 06 Nov, 2019 at 19:45:22 +0000, Tony Molloy wrote:

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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

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

'Monospace 11'

and

fc-match monospace

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