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Ugly fonts after Devuan upgrade
After upgrading Devuan to Daedalus, all Jwm fonts look ugly (every other program works fine).
I tried several fixes like:
Reconfiguring the systemwide fonts
trying several fonts in .jwmrc
trying the default jwmrc
Nothing seems to work
My .jwmrc looks like this:
<Font>-*-fixed-*-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*</Font>
or
<Font>DejaVu Sans-10</Font>
and other combinations.
A screenshot of the taskbar can be seen at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mr9dAY … p=sharing]
Any suggestions?
You could try running:
jwm -v
or
ldd /path/to/jwm
to see if there is any mention of freetype, fontconfig, or pango. If not, it probably means that jwm was built with only the ancient XFree86-type fonts.
P.S. The link to your screenshot is broken from here.
Thanks for your prompt reply.
$ jwm -v JWM v2.4.0 by Joe Wingbermuehle compiled options: confirm icons jpeg nls png shape svg xbm xft xinerama xpm xrender system configuration: /etc/jwm/system.jwmrc
no mention of freetype, fontconfig, or pango in the output from lld /usr/bin/jwm
screenshot link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mr9dAYJqfqsIqgEHTy4fgjxGLdmINtOx/view?usp=sharing
I downgraded Jwm from 2.4.0-1 to 2.3.7-5, and now the fonts are just fine. Not a solution, perhaps, but a fix.
Or you could install pango-devel (and the other required *-devel packages) and compile jwm 2.4.1 from source.
Actually, I have a Debian development version installed on a spare partition. I could do that or, perhaps, file a bug issue on Debian website.
I would file the bug and build a new version to tide you over.
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Actually, I have a Debian development version installed on a spare partition. I could do that or, perhaps, file a bug issue on Debian website.
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Same problem with jwm-2.4.0-1 under ArchLinux. Last working version is jwm-2.3.7-3
@brussell1 you can try jwm-git from AUR. The PKGBUILD doesn't explicitly require pango, but it should still link to it, provided you have pango installed (which you probably do)
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jwm-git/