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i3: Status and title bar text do not appear with default config file

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Leo Singer <leo.singer@ligo.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: i3: Status and title bar text do not appear with default config file

Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:45:51 -0500

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

Message #10 received at 918925@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>

To: Leo Singer <leo.singer@ligo.org>, 918925@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#918925: i3: Status and title bar text do not appear with default config file

Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:25:03 +0100

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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.singer@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

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Message #15 received at 918925@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Leo Pound Singer <lpsinger@umd.edu>

To: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>

Cc: Leo Singer <leo.singer@ligo.org>, "918925@bugs.debian.org" <918925@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#918925: i3: Status and title bar text do not appear with default config file

Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:41:22 -0500

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No, all of the packages recommended by i3-wm are installed.

> On Jan 10, 2019, at 12:25, Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@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.singer@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

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Message #20 received at 918925@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>

To: Leo Pound Singer <lpsinger@umd.edu>

Cc: Leo Singer <leo.singer@ligo.org>, "918925@bugs.debian.org" <918925@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#918925: i3: Status and title bar text do not appear with default config file

Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 22:46:25 +0100

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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 <lpsinger@umd.edu> wrote:

> No, all of the packages recommended by i3-wm are installed.
>
> On Jan 10, 2019, at 12:25, Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@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.singer@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

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Message #25 received at 918925@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Leo Pound Singer <lpsinger@umd.edu>

To: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>

Cc: Leo Pound Singer <lpsinger@umd.edu>, Leo Singer <leo.singer@ligo.org>, "918925@bugs.debian.org" <918925@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#918925: i3: Status and title bar text do not appear with default config file

Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 11:17:48 -0500

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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 <stapelberg@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 <lpsinger@umd.edu> wrote:
>> No, all of the packages recommended by i3-wm are installed.
>> 
>>> On Jan 10, 2019, at 12:25, Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@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.singer@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

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Message #30 received at 918925@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>

To: Leo Pound Singer <lpsinger@umd.edu>

Cc: Leo Singer <leo.singer@ligo.org>, "918925@bugs.debian.org" <918925@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#918925: i3: Status and title bar text do not appear with default config file

Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 17:59:37 +0100

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Then use whichever tool has a font selection dialog :)

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 5:18 PM Leo Pound Singer <lpsinger@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 <stapelberg@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 <lpsinger@umd.edu> wrote:
>
>> No, all of the packages recommended by i3-wm are installed.
>>
>> On Jan 10, 2019, at 12:25, Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@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.singer@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

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Message #35 received at 918925@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Leo Pound Singer <lpsinger@umd.edu>

To: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>

Cc: Leo Pound Singer <lpsinger@umd.edu>, Leo Singer <leo.singer@ligo.org>, "918925@bugs.debian.org" <918925@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#918925: i3: Status and title bar text do not appear with default config file

Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 16:59:47 -0500

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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 <stapelberg@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Then use whichever tool has a font selection dialog :)
> 
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 5:18 PM Leo Pound Singer <lpsinger@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 <stapelberg@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 <lpsinger@umd.edu> wrote:
>>>> No, all of the packages recommended by i3-wm are installed.
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 10, 2019, at 12:25, Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@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.singer@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

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Message #40 received at 918925@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Leo Pound Singer <lpsinger@umd.edu>

To: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>

Cc: Leo Pound Singer <lpsinger@umd.edu>, Leo Singer <leo.singer@ligo.org>, "918925@bugs.debian.org" <918925@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#918925: i3: Status and title bar text do not appear with default config file

Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 05:45:55 +0000

When I type ^g, I see this go by in dmesg:

[  778.791035] audit: type=1400 audit(1547617464.261:24):
apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" profile="/usr/bin/surf"
name="/usr/bin/dash" pid=919 comm="surf" requested_mask="x"
denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000 ouid=0

On 1/15/19, Leo Pound Singer <lpsinger@umd.edu> wrote:
> 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 <stapelberg@debian.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Then use whichever tool has a font selection dialog :)
>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 5:18 PM Leo Pound Singer <lpsinger@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 <stapelberg@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 <lpsinger@umd.edu>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> No, all of the packages recommended by i3-wm are installed.
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jan 10, 2019, at 12:25, Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@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.singer@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
>

Message #45 received at 918925@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Leo Pound Singer <lpsinger@umd.edu>

To: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>

Cc: Leo Singer <leo.singer@ligo.org>, "918925@bugs.debian.org" <918925@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#918925: i3: Status and title bar text do not appear with default config file

Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:02:57 -0500

Sorry for the spam. I sent that last message to the wrong issue.

Best,
Leo

> On Jan 16, 2019, at 00:45, Leo Pound Singer <lpsinger@umd.edu> wrote:
> 
> When I type ^g, I see this go by in dmesg:
> 
> [  778.791035] audit: type=1400 audit(1547617464.261:24):
> apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" profile="/usr/bin/surf"
> name="/usr/bin/dash" pid=919 comm="surf" requested_mask="x"
> denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
> 
>> On 1/15/19, Leo Pound Singer <lpsinger@umd.edu> wrote:
>> 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 <stapelberg@debian.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Then use whichever tool has a font selection dialog :)
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 5:18 PM Leo Pound Singer <lpsinger@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 <stapelberg@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 <lpsinger@umd.edu>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> No, all of the packages recommended by i3-wm are installed.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Jan 10, 2019, at 12:25, Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@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.singer@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
>> 

Message #50 received at 918925@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Leo Singer <leo.singer@ligo.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <918925@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: i3: Status and title bar text do not appear with default config file

Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:04:00 -0500

Package: i3
Version: 4.16-1
Followup-For: Bug #918925

Dear Maintainer,

Oddly enough, the title and status bar text do become visible if I change the
following line in ~/.config/i3/config from this:

    font pango:monospace 8

to this:

    font monospace 8

Best,
Leo

Message #55 received at 918925@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Leo Singer <leo.singer@ligo.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <918925@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: i3: Status and title bar text do not appear with default config file

Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:20:27 -0500

Package: i3
Version: 4.16-1
Followup-For: Bug #918925

Actually, removing the 'pango:' string from the font option is just causing
it to fall back to the fixed-width X core font.

I tried using a handful of other fonts, such as:

    font pango:Bistream Vera Sans Mono 8

And it turns out that the title and status bar text are missing for *any* pango
font option.

I looked through ~/.xsession-errors and I did not see any font-related errors.

    [libi3] ../../i3-wm-4.16/libi3/font.c Using Pango font monospace, size 8
    01/18/19 14:13:30 - dpi.c:init_dpi:41 - Resource Xft.dpi not specified, skipping.
    01/18/19 14:13:30 - dpi.c:init_dpi:64 - Using fallback for calculating DPI.
    01/18/19 14:13:30 - dpi.c:init_dpi:66 - Using dpi = 96
    01/18/19 14:13:30 - main.c:main:561 - root_depth = 32, visual_id = 0x00000077.
    01/18/19 14:13:30 - main.c:main:563 - root_screen->height_in_pixels = 1080, root_screen->height_in_millimeters = 285
    01/18/19 14:13:30 - main.c:main:564 - One logical pixel corresponds to 1 physical pixels on this display.

Message #60 received at 918925@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>

To: Leo Singer <leo.singer@ligo.org>, 918925@bugs.debian.org, pkg-raspi-maintainers@alioth-lists.debian.net

Subject: Re: Bug#918925: i3: Status and title bar text do not appear with default config file

Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 23:36:54 +0100

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[+cc pkg-raspi-maintainers, in case someone has seen this issue or a
similar issue before]

I can reproduce the problem on a Raspberry Pi 3B.

Interestingly enough, running i3 in xserver-xephyr on that machine makes it
display correctly, so the issue is not (just) a missing dependency.

My guess is that there is some issue related to the graphics driver.
Unfortunately, I can’t seem to use the “vesa” driver; Xorg finds no screens
when I try.

I haven’t yet figured out whether other programs are affected, too, or just
i3. I can say that awesome and geeqie seem to work.

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 8:21 PM Leo Singer <leo.singer@ligo.org> wrote:

> Package: i3
> Version: 4.16-1
> Followup-For: Bug #918925
>
> Actually, removing the 'pango:' string from the font option is just causing
> it to fall back to the fixed-width X core font.
>
> I tried using a handful of other fonts, such as:
>
>     font pango:Bistream Vera Sans Mono 8
>
> And it turns out that the title and status bar text are missing for *any*
> pango
> font option.
>
> I looked through ~/.xsession-errors and I did not see any font-related
> errors.
>
>     [libi3] ../../i3-wm-4.16/libi3/font.c Using Pango font monospace, size
> 8
>     01/18/19 14:13:30 - dpi.c:init_dpi:41 - Resource Xft.dpi not
> specified, skipping.
>     01/18/19 14:13:30 - dpi.c:init_dpi:64 - Using fallback for calculating
> DPI.
>     01/18/19 14:13:30 - dpi.c:init_dpi:66 - Using dpi = 96
>     01/18/19 14:13:30 - main.c:main:561 - root_depth = 32, visual_id =
> 0x00000077.
>     01/18/19 14:13:30 - main.c:main:563 - root_screen->height_in_pixels =
> 1080, root_screen->height_in_millimeters = 285
>     01/18/19 14:13:30 - main.c:main:564 - One logical pixel corresponds to
> 1 physical pixels on this display.
>


-- 
Best regards,
Michael

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Message #65 received at 918925@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jakob Haufe <sur5r@debian.org>

To: 918925@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 918925-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#918925: i3: Status and title bar text do not appear with default config file

Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 21:11:15 +0200

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Does this issue persist? If so, is this on RaspiOS or Debian?

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