Re: proftpd + fonts problems

[mukesh agrawal <mukesh@cs.cmu.edu>]

> I am using Debian unstable. After some of the recent upgrades my fonts
> in GNOME2 have changed. Here is my old desktop:
>
> 	http://www.gnome.pl/~mst/files/screens/desktop.png
>
> and here is my new (with "narrow" fonts):
>
> 	http://www.gnome.pl/~mst/files/screens/desktop2.png
>
> Could you help me and tell, why the fonts have changed?

Due to a recent change in fontconfig, non-scalable fonts do not show up in
GNOME apps by default. (There is a conifugration setting that controls
this, and the default is to not provide bitmap fonts.) Maybe that is the
problem? (See bug 183969.)