[CentOS] Possible Font problem with CentOS 7

Liam O'Toole liam.p.otoole at gmail.com
Wed Nov 6 20:19:44 UTC 2019


On Wed, 06 Nov, 2019 at 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

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

?


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