Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 00:26:30 +0100 From: Heino Tiedemann <rotkaps_spam_trap@gmx.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange fonts in firefox since update to 2.0.0.1 Message-ID: <666u54-mrb1.ln1@news.hansenet.de> References: <vh5t54-hpr2.ln1@news.hansenet.de> <200612221627.12808.lofi@freebsd.org> <hqbt54-h7k.ln1@news.hansenet.de> <200612221802.48250.lofi@freebsd.org>
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Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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 > chooses an ugly font. I am now guessing it comes with the kde-update 3.5.4 -> 3.5.5 these days. After updating kdebase it appears. Konquror also looks ugly. Even if it show lokal files & folders. > I guess it depends on the toolkit and selected toolkit Toolkit? > theme which font is requested for the line edits - in my case, it seems to be > plain old "fixed" and fontconfig likes to choose this for me: > > [lofi@kiste]:0:~ > fc-match fixed-10 > 12x13ja.pcf.gz: "Fixed" "ja" here: rincewind:/home/rotkap> fc-match fixed-10 6x10.pcf.gz: "Fixed" "Regular" > Fontconfig will use this on my system for both fixed (no size) and fixed-10. > There's probably a correct way to prevent this, which probably involves > editing ~/.fonts.conf, but since I reckoned that I'm not going to miss that > font at all, and I never understood fontconfig syntax and semantics > completely, I just deleted it - problem solved, here. From looking at that > screenshot of yours, it seems to be at least a different font for you though. So, what should i remove from my $HOME? drwxr-xr-x 2 rotkap users 512B 25 Jun 2004 .fonts -rw-r--r-- 1 rotkap users 0B 10 Dez 20:15 .fonts.cache-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 rotkap users 329B 18 Nov 2004 .fonts.conf Any Ideas what happend on my system? Heino
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