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