It tries each of those patterns in order until it gets one, and if it doesn't, it bails. See xjack.c line 88.
So probably it's actually using > alee-guseul-medium-r-normal--33-240-100-100-m-0-iso10646-1 I assume there's something stupid about that font that makes it blow up. No idea what, though. From its name, it should be a monospaced font containing (at least) the ASCII characters which xjack uses. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org