On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:54:40AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I am at a loss. > > My systems in X look great. Anti-aliasing works, I have True Type > fonts installed and I am generally happy until some idiot Web page > author specifies Helvetica instead of the generic sans-serif for a > display font. I've added the following to ~/.fonts.conf: > > <-- Use Arial in preference to Helvetica --> > <match target="pattern"> > <test qual="any" name="family"> > <string>Helvetica</string> > </test> > <edit name="family" mode="assign"> > <string>Arial</string> > </edit> > </match> > > Which, I now find, was overwritten by some other process. Grrrrrr.... > > How do I easily remap the UGLY Helvetica to the more pleasing Arial I > have already installed. This affects both Firefox and Konqueror > equally so I assume the answer is somewhere in the font subsystem which > seems somewhat like a Hydra. > > I am running KDE on both current Sid and Etch and I'm seeing the same > effect on each. > If this is ony annyong you or causing problems when you browse the web, then you should probably make the change in your userContent.css (at least for Mozilla and Firefox). I am sure that other browsers use the same mechanism or a similar one. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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