Re: xorg upgrade breaks fonts

[Andrew Perrin <clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu>]

That did it, thanks!

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On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Mark Zimmerman wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 06:41:24PM +0000, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > Since upgrading xorg, I get lousy-looking fonts in places such as emacs,
> > the fvwm menu popup, and other GTK-like apps.  Any advice on where to
> > look?
>
> The upgrade added a bunch of new font paths to xorg.conf. For every
> /usr/lib/X11/fonts/foo entry you had, there is probably now an
> additional /usr/share/fonts/X11/foo entry preceding it. I fixed most
> of my uglyfont problems by commenting out /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1.
>
> It may be advisable to whack all of the old entries; I still am
> getting some that fall back to misc/fixed.
>
> -- Mark
>
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