This is caused by the colour profile settings in your terminal program (gnome-terminal, mate-terminal, whatever).
Edit-Prefrences-Colors
I generally just check "use colors from system theme" but I suppose that would depend on what you're using for a system theme. But the setting you need to fix is under Text and Background Color.
On Wed, 06 Nov 2019 19:45:22 +0000
Tony Molloy wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've got a possible font problem with a fully updated CentOS 7 system.
>
> An example with the man command.
>
> #man kill
>
> Should return the following
>
> KILL(1) User Commands KILL(1)
>
> NAME
> kill - terminate a process
>
> SYNOPSIS
> kill [-s signal|-p] [-q sigval] [-a] [--] pid...
> kill -l [signal]
>
>
> but what I actually get is the following
>
> KILL(1) User Commands KILL(1)
>
>
> kill - terminate a process
>
>
> [ signal| ] [ sigval] [ ] [ ] pid...
> [signal]
>
> Notice the missing text.
>
> If I select the text and paste it into an editor I see the missing
> text. So it's there just not displaying on the screen.
>
> I also notice the effect with links embedded in e-mails. I use
> evolution. Embedded links do not appear in the e-mail but if I hover
> over a link location then it appears in the text box at the bottom of
> the page and I can select it.
>
> I suspect I'm missing some common font(s).
>
> Any ideas.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tony
>
>
>
>
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