Ubuntu
xboard package

xboard cannot find helvetica font and does not start

Bug #655757 reported by krahim
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: xboard

I cannot run xboard
xboard: no fonts match pattern -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

This font is supposed to be in xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts and xorg-x11-100dpi-fonts but it is not or not at least with a name that matches.
Apparently it is possible to run xboard with a font argument but I haven't bothered to sort this out yet.

http://<email address hidden>/msg00009.html

Karim

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Vincent Legout (vlegout) wrote :

Hello,

You should install xfonts-100dpi or xfonts-75dpi, restart xorg, and Xboard will run.

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