I just reinstalled buster to switch from armhf to aarch64, so my system is now pretty bare and unmodified other than installing build-essential, i3, and some python3 packages. Nevertheless I was able to reproduce the issue.
I installed and ran font-manager from within i3 and nothing looks out of the ordinary. > On Jan 11, 2019, at 11:59, Michael Stapelberg <stapelb...@debian.org> wrote: > > Then use whichever tool has a font selection dialog :) > >> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 5:18 PM Leo Pound Singer <lpsin...@umd.edu> wrote: >> 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 > > > -- > Best regards, > Michael
