[Xastir] Slax and Fonts

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Tony Hunt wrote:

> Just back from leave here. Still trying to solve the SLAX (Slackware) fonts
> issue. All the menus are still showing up with little boxes on the title
> texts instead of readable text..
> 
> Curt was guessing that it is perhaps a Font issue and I am kinda starting to
> agree.
> So how do I get some more fonts working with SLAX which is Slackware based ?
> 
> Xastir compiles fine and Openmotif as well as Imagemagick .. It seems to run
> with no errors but its utterly useless as the menu texts may as well be in
> chineese. My experience with Slackware is pretty limited.

I haven't had time to do searches on this, but it sounds familiar.
I may have run across it myself or seen it come across the mailing
list.  Have you done searches through the mailing list to find
people with similar problems, and hopefully the solution?  I may
have suggested such earlier in this thread.  If so, ignore.  ;-)

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