Did you disable apt recommendations? The i3-wm package
recommends fonts-dejavu-core, which should be picked up as a suitable font.
Do you have that package installed?

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 5:48 PM Leo Singer <leo.sin...@ligo.org> wrote:

> Package: i3
> Version: 4.16-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I installed i3 under Debian Buster (armhf) on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. With the
> automatically generated configuration file, the i3 title and status bars
> are
> blank.
>
> I found that I could get the title and status bar text to show up by
> employing
> the workaround of uncommenting the following font option in
> ~/.config/i3/config:
>
>         font -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-iso10646-1
>
> I do not know if this issue also occurs on more commonplace amd64 systems.
>
> Would you please modify the package so that the title and status bar text
> are
> visible with the default, automatically generated i3 config file?
>
> Regards,
> Leo
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: armhf (armv7l)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-armmp (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C
> (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages i3 depends on:
> ii  i3-wm  4.16-1
>
> Versions of packages i3 recommends:
> ii  dunst           1.3.2-1
> ii  i3lock          2.11.1-1
> ii  i3status        2.12-1
> ii  suckless-tools  44-1
>
> i3 suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>


-- 
Best regards,
Michael

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