gnome-specimen is not in buster. It has been removed from Debian.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 10, 2019, at 16:46, Michael Stapelberg <stapelb...@debian.org> wrote: > > That’s weird. Something must be different in your system, though, as this is > the first time anyone has ever reported this issue. > > Can you check gnome-specimen and see if fonts show up correctly there? Can > you try using them with i3 and see if that works in general? > >> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 7:41 PM Leo Pound Singer <lpsin...@umd.edu> wrote: >> No, all of the packages recommended by i3-wm are installed. >> >>> On Jan 10, 2019, at 12:25, Michael Stapelberg <stapelb...@debian.org> wrote: >>> >>> Did you disable apt recommendations? The i3-wm package recommends >>> fonts-dejavu-core, which should be picked up as a suitable font. Do you >>> have that package installed? >>> >>>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 5:48 PM Leo Singer <leo.sin...@ligo.org> wrote: >>>> Package: i3 >>>> Version: 4.16-1 >>>> Severity: normal >>>> >>>> Dear Maintainer, >>>> >>>> I installed i3 under Debian Buster (armhf) on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. With the >>>> automatically generated configuration file, the i3 title and status bars >>>> are >>>> blank. >>>> >>>> I found that I could get the title and status bar text to show up by >>>> employing >>>> the workaround of uncommenting the following font option in >>>> ~/.config/i3/config: >>>> >>>> font -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-iso10646-1 >>>> >>>> I do not know if this issue also occurs on more commonplace amd64 systems. >>>> >>>> Would you please modify the package so that the title and status bar text >>>> are >>>> visible with the default, automatically generated i3 config file? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Leo >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- System Information: >>>> Debian Release: buster/sid >>>> APT prefers testing >>>> APT policy: (500, 'testing') >>>> Architecture: armhf (armv7l) >>>> >>>> Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-armmp (SMP w/4 CPU cores) >>>> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C >>>> (charmap=UTF-8) >>>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash >>>> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) >>>> LSM: AppArmor: enabled >>>> >>>> Versions of packages i3 depends on: >>>> ii i3-wm 4.16-1 >>>> >>>> Versions of packages i3 recommends: >>>> ii dunst 1.3.2-1 >>>> ii i3lock 2.11.1-1 >>>> ii i3status 2.12-1 >>>> ii suckless-tools 44-1 >>>> >>>> i3 suggests no packages. >>>> >>>> -- no debconf information >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> Michael > > > -- > Best regards, > Michael