[CentOS] Possible Font problem with CentOS 7

Thu Nov 7 19:37:26 UTC 2019
Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie>

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:
> 
> > 
> > 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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