Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:28:39AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > Now I seem to have some font problems. Netscape seems to be OK, but the
> > GIMP comes up with [] [] [] [] [] in place of the hint text. The title
> > bars are OK but any "filled in" text is just [] repeated. Any hints?
>
> Some have reported that running xfs (the X font server, not the
> filesystem!) helps with this. I don't know more details, merely passing
> on hearsay ...
Restarting X and _all_ fontservers has helped on numerous occasions
with same problem.
Perhaps the packages could do something about it. This is certainly
FAQ material.
-j
