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. On Wed, 06 Nov 2019 19:45:22 +0000 Tony Molloy wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > -- > Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie> > Home > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com