[14:17] at last my 16.04 is giving hassles [14:17] can one of you please tell me what to google to look for a cure [14:18] https://pasteboard.co/GVrsnYY.png [14:18] letters missing in many apps etc so i cant read what is available [14:19] i have googled missing icons but they different issues and missing text [14:19] inetpro fix it [14:19] oh btw good afternoon everyone [14:20] paddatrapper you working? [14:24] Kilos: the app name is showing correctly btw, this is happening in every other app? [14:25] Kilos: you are on laptop or desktop? [14:25] for example if i open a movie folder there are 3 or 4 files and one is the .avi or .mkw etc but i cant even read which is which [14:25] laptop [14:26] only started yesterday, shockwave flash in browser started giving problems first [14:27] Kilos: try to open a wallpaper in fullscreen and see if there is anything wrong too. [14:27] this full screen konversation has no errors , everything is readable [14:28] i dont know where there are wallpapers to play with man [14:28] try to see if pictures are displaying correctly [14:28] i can just read mail etc [14:28] Kilos: any good picture file will do [14:29] ok i know where pics are [14:29] Kilos: try in fullscreen [14:30] everything is perfect [14:31] Kilos: tried restart? [14:31] 10 ntimes [14:31] lol [14:32] reinstalled some graphics files and kubuntu-desktop but no change [14:32] Kilos: lol, yeah checking out the very basic troubleshooting [14:33] Kilos: aw, you went that much! [14:33] and i need to sleep not sit here and fight my kde [14:33] lol [14:33] i have had it before on arlier version but then the ead was still working better [14:34] head [14:36] i run toilet quick [14:39] Kilos: ping [14:40] i am sure i found the cure with google last time, but cant remember how i worded the query [14:40] pavlushka pong [14:40] Kilos: so you are having problem with fonts in sysnaptic and dolphin file browser only? [14:41] ive tried missing icons, letters and characters but they all give me many pages of unrelated stuff [14:41] ah maybe it was fonts [14:42] yes mostly when i open stuff with dolphin [14:42] and synaptic [14:44] Kilos: ok, try for both application, edit-> preference-> colors/view/display, find out fonts options and try to set fonts to "Sans" or "Serif" [14:44] *s [14:44] and see if it works [14:45] ok and i just opened synaptic and reinstalled everything with dolphin, it needs to download 20 meg so there must be many updates etc missing there [14:46] Kilos: and you better run a "sudo apt update && apt -y full-upgrade" in terminal if possible. [14:47] and my internet is very bad, took 3.1/2 hours to do a 300 meg upgrade yesterday [14:47] ty pavlushka , you carry on doing what you were doing ill work on this and give you a call if i dont win [14:47] Kilos: sure :) [14:48] ok ill do that now ty lad [14:50] Kilos: and that command will not redo what is been done yesterday, if you have upgraded your machine yesterday, then not much suppose to happen this time but it will fix if anything is due [14:50] cool ty [14:51] yes nothing to install or broken [14:51] lol [15:08] Kilos: then try to setup a different font in those applications [15:09] * pavlushka hoping it might fix the issue [15:09] it seems to be fixed pavlushka [15:10] maybe it was dolphin that wasnt up to date [15:10] ty for your help lad [15:10] Kilos: fixed without doing anything? [15:10] maybe some patch or something that i missed updating [15:11] i reinstall all the dolphin files that showed as installed and it downloaded 20 meg i told you [15:12] ok, may be that 20MB :) [15:12] sometimes i dont do upgrades especially when my download speed is in bytes per second not even kilo bytes [15:12] thanks young man [15:12] is all good there by you [15:13] Kilos: I just gave you company , lol [15:13] thats what i needed [15:13] Kilos: yep, almost [15:14] when you gonna be a millionaire [15:16] Kilos: when I'll have a friend named Megas, coz Kilo means thousand :p [15:16] hahaha [16:03] Kilos-: studying, yeah [17:22] sigh