#222 garbage charactors displayed in xfe 1.42 menu

[Erdos New]

my 'xfe' was upgraded to ver 1.42 in voidlinux. the menu are all messed up now, display 'XXX..' in place of File, Edit, etc.

'launch xfe as root' also returns 'syntax error, bad fd number'.

[Roland Baudin]

What is your system ? Fox version ?

[Erdos New]

my system is 32-bit volid linux with 'Awesome' windows manager, system is up-to-date, just performed upgrade last week.

i don't know what is Fox version.

[Roland Baudin]

Thanks. Unfortunately I don't know how to test such an exotic system. Perhaps you should try to report the bug to the developers of your system.

[Erdos New]

this turns out to be a font configuration issue:

i changed the xferc settings for fonts: ~/.config/xfe/xferc:

[SETTINGS]
relative_resize=1
textfont=WenQuanYi Micro Hei Mono [unknown],120,normal,regular
iconpath=/usr/share/xfe/icons/gnomeblue-theme
basecolor=#ede9e3
time_format=%x %X
single_click=0
wheellines=5
smooth_scroll=1
use_clearlooks=1
font=WenQuanYi Micro Hei Mono [unknown],120,normal,regular

removing:
textfont=WenQuanYi Micro Hei Mono [unknown],120,normal,regular
font=WenQuanYi Micro Hei Mono [unknown],120,normal,regular

and restart 'xfe', menu display normaly. after going to preferences and change back to the font i want, xferc shows:
[SETTINGS]
textfont=WenQuanYi Micro Hei Mono [WQYF],100,normal,regular
...
font=WenQuanYi Micro Hei Mono [WQYF],100,normal,regular

'WenQuanYI Micro' is an open source TTF font I installed on my system to read Chinese. i'm not sure why 'xfe' doesn't recognize it.

[Erdos New]

i have found the solution to my problem with using 'xfe' in root mode here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15809060/sh-syntax-error-bad-fd-number

issuing these fix the 'root' mode problem:
sudo mv /bin/sh /bin/sh.orig
sudo ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

this issue seems to be common in BSD flavors of distros (freebsd, voidlinux etc) , because 'sh' is linked to 'dash' instead of 'bash'?

[Roland Baudin]

I close this rather old bug...