Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:58:15 +0100 From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org> To: Brett Wiggins <s3682305@student.rmit.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trying to get fonts working in X11 Message-ID: <vaht-jqrc-wny@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CA%2B3bzRKcmPDK8WGC8mk0uF5YwdvHyzPjuRC1xbZoA134E7ts7w@mail.gmail.com> (Brett Wiggins's message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:57:03 %2B1100") References: <CA%2B3bzRKcmPDK8WGC8mk0uF5YwdvHyzPjuRC1xbZoA134E7ts7w@mail.gmail.com>
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Brett Wiggins <s3682305@student.rmit.edu.au> writes: > Is the ownership of the directories or files a problem? I changed all of > the directories to 777 but that doesn't seem to do anything. I have run > xset on every directory, but in my dekstop applications such as firefox, > the text is still hard to read. Below is info regarding my system. Any help > would be appreciated. Firefox via Pango uses fontconfig. While "xset fp" or FontPath in xorg.conf are still supported they rarely look good. Check fc-list or fc-match instead. For one, to replace default sans-serif font try $ mkdir -p ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/ $ cat <<EOF >~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/50-local.conf <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "../fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <alias> <family>sans-serif</family> <prefer> <family>Roboto</family> </prefer> </alias> </fontconfig> EOF $ fc-match sans Roboto-Regular.ttf: "Roboto" "Regular" $ firefox https://en.wikipedia.org Read fonts-conf(5) manpage for more details. If a web page still uses a different font open "Inspect Element", check what CSS rule requested and adjust fontconfig. For one, you can configure for Arial to be displayed as Roboto. ;) Removing unused fonts is another option.
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