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  1. Bug #63206
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Comment 2 for bug 63206

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andbelo (andbelo) wrote :

Found a workaround:

The problem is not with R. It is with font path settings for X. The FontPath in /etc/X11/xorg.cong is not pointing to the correct directories. I changed the lines (following a lead from here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=268024):

# FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
# FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
# FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
# FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
# FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
# FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
# FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"

to these:

 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"

and it started working. However, a proper fix should be done in order to set the font path correctly.