Comment # 7 on bug 1118557 from Ulrich Windl

(In reply to Stefan Br�ns from comment #5)
> You are confusing fontconfig (client side) and the legacy X11
> Core/serverside fonts. xfontsel uses the legacy X11 Core fonts.
> 
> To see which fonts are available via the Core fonts mechanism, do
> $> grep "helvetica-medium-r-.*-12-" /usr/share/fonts/*/fonts.dir

(In reply to Stefan Br�ns from comment #6)
> This is not relevant here ...

I just wanted to point out that despite of hundreds of installed fonts xdvi
(and other tools) keep complaining that there are no fonts. And I'm clueless
regarding the reason (In Leap 42.3 everything worked; I just upgraded).