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Certain English characters missing in displays

Asked by Bruce MacAlister

Certain English characters are missing in displays. The title at the top of most displays (windows) have a title. Often there are other titles within the display. Mosly it is the letter E, but other letters disappear as well.

In mycurrent terminal display heading I see
b uc @b uc -O iPl x-GX260:~

Where I should see
bruce@bruce-OptiPlex-GX260:~

Browser displays, Text Editor, LibreOffice, the text in the Termial session are all correct.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of :

lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

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Bruce MacAlister (w4bru) said : 		#2

lsb_release -a; uname -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux bruce-OptiPlex-GX260 3.2.0-56-generic-pae #86-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 23 17:51:27 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Have you tried the Unity2D session which is selectable on the login page?

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Bruce MacAlister (w4bru) said : 		#4

Thank you for the suggestion. I switched to Unity2D. It has not been a very long test but that seems to have solved it. It also appears tomake the machine run a little faster. I'll close this as solved and open it or a new one later if that does not solve it over time.