Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:02:40 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, rotkap@gmx.de Subject: Re: Strange fonts in firefox since update to 2.0.0.1 Message-ID: <200612221802.48250.lofi@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <hqbt54-h7k.ln1@news.hansenet.de> References: <vh5t54-hpr2.ln1@news.hansenet.de> <200612221627.12808.lofi@freebsd.org> <hqbt54-h7k.ln1@news.hansenet.de>
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--nextPart1223004.qIIEO3d9F5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 22. December 2006 16:56, Heino Tiedemann wrote: > Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Friday, 22. December 2006 15:09, Heino Tiedemann wrote: > >> Hi There, > >> > >> since I updated the port www/firefox to the new version > >> "firefox-2.0.0.1,1" I have e strange, "default font". > > > > Like this? > > I took a screenshot and put it here: > <http://rotkap.gmxhome.de/ff-font1.png>; > > Please take also a look to the URL-line of firefox. It is has a font, > where it is difficult to distinguish between "i" and "l". Seems to be a different font, but essentially the same problem - fontconfig= =20 chooses an ugly font. I guess it depends on the toolkit and selected toolki= t=20 theme which font is requested for the line edits - in my case, it seems to = be=20 plain old "fixed" and fontconfig likes to choose this for me: [lofi@kiste]:0:~ > fc-match fixed-10 12x13ja.pcf.gz: "Fixed" "ja" That's a bitmap font with japanese and *very* ugly latin gyphs (it used to= =20 terrorise me for ages by showing up in Konsole as the default font, too). =46ontconfig will use this on my system for both fixed (no size) and fixed-= 10.=20 There's probably a correct way to prevent this, which probably involves=20 editing ~/.fonts.conf, but since I reckoned that I'm not going to miss that= =20 font at all, and I never understood fontconfig syntax and semantics=20 completely, I just deleted it - problem solved, here. From looking at that= =20 screenshot of yours, it seems to be at least a different font for you thoug= h. =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart1223004.qIIEO3d9F5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFjA+4Xhc68WspdLARAo7XAJ9JiUNTBfMwB81x9QAGf177p61KpQCdG/Lr kPNB75ieGWDxRrMsGRqEGts= =gAfr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1223004.qIIEO3d9F5--
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