So, on your system where: - xfonts-100dpi is not installed - gsfonts-x11 is installed - xterm uses Helvetica with: -fn '-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-180-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'
What do you get from: find /usr -name '*helvB18*' find /usr -name fonts.dir | xargs grep -i 'helvetica-bold-r-.*180' And of the matched font files, what packages are they from? E.g.: % apt-file search /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/helvB18.pcf.gz xfonts-100dpi: /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/helvB18.pcf.gz -- Jamie Zawinski https://www.jwz.org/ https://www.dnalounge.com/