Subject: Re: 23.0.60; Font for fixed-pitch not resolved

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:35:28 -0400

Michael Welsh Duggan <[email-masked]> writes:

> md5i@maru:/usr/share/fonts/X11$ grep monospace `find . -name fonts.dir`
> md5i@maru:/usr/share/fonts/X11$ 
>
> Plenty of -fixed-, but not a -monospace- to be seen.
>
> What do you get from grepping for monospace in your fonts.dir files?

Nothing either.  Where is xlsfonts getting its information from?  This
is very strange.

Maybe a good place to ask for help is a mailing list for your
distribution, if you're confident that the font files are not bungled by
a local change.  Which distribution are you using?