[ale] mutt, gnome2 terminal, and Andale Mono font

[James P. Kinney III]

It does sound like it is trying to display a font it either doesn't have
or can't find. I have has poor to mediocre success with Linux font
issues. My solution, feeble as it is, has been to install EVERY font I
can find and follow the direction on fonts from linuxdocs. There was an
app I found a few years back that allowed some GUI control of fonts. It
seemed to work pretty good. Search on Freshmeat for "font" or "font
manager".

You could also change the font in gnome terminal to something else and
see if that works.

And you are braver than I on trying to actually _use_ gnome2 :) 

On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 09:37, Cory T. Echols wrote:
> Hi.  I'm trying to use mutt under the terminal app from gnome2 with the
> Andale mono font.  Unfortunately, the thread tree characters do not
> display correctly.  They're all displayed as empty rectangles.  There
> are other fonts on the box that do work.  'fixed' is one of them, but I
> know that's an alias and can't figure out which font the name actuall
> resolves to.
> 
> When I use ssh under PuTTy on a windows box to my Linux box where mutt
> is installed, the thread trees are drawn correctly.  PuTTy is also
> configured to use Andale Mono.  I think this means that the gnome2
> terminal is the culprit.
> 
> I've done a good bit of web searching for a solution, but haven't come
> up with anything.  Has anyone else seen this and found a solution?
> 
> -- 
> Cory T. Echols
> ctechols at mindspring.com
> 
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