That’s weird. Something must be different in your system, though, as this is the first time anyone has ever reported this issue.
Can you check gnome-specimen and see if fonts show up correctly there? Can you try using them with i3 and see if that works in general? On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 7:41 PM Leo Pound Singer <lpsin...@umd.edu> wrote: > No, all of the packages recommended by i3-wm are installed. > > On Jan 10, 2019, at 12:25, Michael Stapelberg <stapelb...@debian.org> > wrote: > > 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 > > -- Best regards, Michael
