Re: Horrid fonts after apt-get upgrade to Xfree 4.2.1-6

[Remco Seesink <raseesink@hotpop.com>]

Hello,

Thank you very much for your solution. I had the same problem.

I was about to report it as bug, but that was already done:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=147716

Cheers,
Remco.

On 02 May 2003 13:28:37 -0300
"Gonzalo Sainz-Trapaga" <gomo@datafull.com> wrote:

> Hi, 
> I solved my problem last night with the help of some guys in
> #debian@freenode. The thing was, after installing some fonts related
> packages, the fonts catalogue (located in /etc/X11/fs/config) had been
> rearranged: the order had been altered and Type1 fonts were on top of
> the list. As xfs parses the list in linear order to find a font that
> matches the request of an application, some ugly fonts from Type1 or
> others were matching instead of the good-looking ones.
> All I did was resorting the catalogue so that the order looked like this
> (but with the entire paths): misc,cyrillic,100dpi:unscaled,
> 75dpi:unscaled,Type1,100dpi,75dpi.
> I did the same in XF86Config-4 just in case xfs would fail (as xfs is
> the first entry on the font sources there).
> Thx a lot
> 
> -- GomoX
>