I got a weird problem in Ubuntu 14.04, when I use the dash bar search, if I type in a lower case 'e' it just displays an empty space instead of the actual letter. Capital 'E' works fine, anybody have this kind of issue before?
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is the same problem seen in other cases too – agha rehan abbas Jun 24 '14 at 17:08
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i mean to say when you type anything in libre office or any offline document – agha rehan abbas Jun 24 '14 at 17:09
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I got the same problem today ! – nilanjanaLodh Dec 30 '15 at 11:19
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This is likely caused by a corrupted font, ttf-ubuntu-font-family
You can use apt-get to reinstall the font by executing the following command.
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-ubuntu-font-family
A restart of Unity will be required to re-read the reinstalled font.
You could restart the machine or you can attempt restart Unity itself by running
sudo service lightdm restart
I ran this from a Terminal session that was running in my current Unity session and the screen went blank so I had to rerun the sudo service lightdm restart command from a Virtual Console I jumped out to the a virtual console using
CTRL ALT F2
I logged in as my self and ran sudo service lightdm restart
After Unity restarted I jumped back to Unity by running CTRL ALT F7
I suspect that the session associated with CTRL ALT F8 represents the hanging attempt at the Unity restart but I suppose that will be rectified by a machine restart.
Virtual consoles are handy and are well covered in the following question Reverting from Ctrl - Alt - F1
