New answers tagged fonts
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nedit, like other old Motif (and Xaw) applications, depends on server-side fonts
Most times, nedit complains like that because some font, like xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi, is either missing or, for some reason, not in your Xorg font path.
Usually, installing that font (e.g. xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi) solves the problem.
If not, add it to your font path, either ...
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The file Helvetica.ttf had unknown origins.
I have deleted this file and everything is back in order now.
It is also possible to install a free variant of Helvetica that can be found here: Helvetica Neue, it works ok.
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The problem may be related to fonts and vector drawing in linux (cairo).
If you auto-login and autostart like I do, the first thing to do is to stop athe autostart.
In your ~/.bash-profile if there is a startxfce4 command, comment it out.
#if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]] && ! [[ -e /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 ]] && (( EUID )); then
# exec nohup startxfce4 ...
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I know this is an old question but I just found a suitable answer.
$ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings antialiasing rgba
This renders all fonts so much nicer.
To apply the same to the GDM:
$ xhost +SI:localuser:gdm
$ sudo -u gdm gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings antialiasing rgba
Screenshot as ...
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