Subject: bug#1219: 23.0.60; Default Font

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:01:59 -0400

Sounds like bug #505, a bug with Debian's font packaging.

What do the following commands give?

$ xlsfonts *monospace*
$ xlsfonts -ll *monospace*

Also, does the following patch give better results?

*** trunk/src/xfns.c.~1.727.~	2008-10-19 23:52:58.000000000 -0400
--- trunk/src/xfns.c	2008-10-24 02:57:56.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 3066,3071 ****
--- 3066,3072 ----
  	= {
  #ifdef HAVE_XFT
  	    /* This will find the normal Xft font.  */
+ 	    "DejaVu Sans Mono-12",
   	    "monospace-12",
  #endif
  	    "-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1",