Re: X/gnome/ghostscript font problem
Try looking in your XF86Config-4 file and move the type1 fontpath to
the end, and if you have a truetype fontpath, move it to the beginning.
If that solves you problem its because X uses the first font in the
fontpath that fits the description, and it usually doesn't handle
type1 fonts very well.
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 04:26:24PM -0000, Rosenstrauch, David wrote:
> Hi all. Perhaps someone can help with a problem I've been having.
>
> Been in the process of getting a new box configged (Debian stable), and
> everything had been going fine. Had been using Firestarter to config the
> box's firewall, but wasn't completely pleased with it. So I decided to give
> gnome-lokkit a whirl, and that's where my problems began.
>
> Apparently, dependencies from the install of gnome-lokkit installed and
> configged a whole lot of other packages as well. (I can't remember all of
> them but IIRC, some gnome packages and some ghostscript packages were relevant
> ones among them.) In any case, ever since that, my fonts have been all messed
> up. Pretty much any text I see - from the text in the GDM login box through
> the menus in IceWM - look weird (kind of jagged).
>
> Anyone have any idea what got changed and how to fix it? I know about the X
> font de-uglification doc, and read through it and tried some of its
> suggestions (e.g., changing the font path in XFconfig86) but no help.
>
> In any case, I was hoping that someone might have some idea what specifically
> might have gotten messed up by that specific group of package installs and how
> I might undo it, rather than general suggestions on how to fix font problems.
>
> Also, I'm fairly certain that I wasn't using AA fonts before, and don't
> particularly like them, so I'm not too keen on a solution that uses AA fonts.
>
>
> Barring some not-too-difficult solution, I think I'm going to have no choice,
> unfortunately, but to blow away the box and start over, since it's a recent
> install with very little stuff on it. I'd prefer not to, though, as I've
> pretty much just finished getting the OS and all the key software installed
> and configged the way I want it, so it'd be several hours of work to do it all
> over again.
>
>
> Anyone come across this before and/or have any suggestions?
>
> TIA!
>
> DR
>
>
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