Re: Debian-Etch Update 08/19/2006 - AA/Font issues?

[Mark Willson <mark@hydrus.org.uk>]

> From bounce-debian-user=lists=hydrus.org.uk@lists.debian.org Sun Aug 20 12:03:15 2006
> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 07:00:04 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Debian-Etch Update 08/19/2006 - AA/Font issues?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> Anyone run dist-upgrade yesterday in Etch and notice the fonts in 
> >>>>>> GTK/Gnome Apps are a bit different (worse)?  The application's fonts, 
> >>>>>> eg, webpages in firefox are fine but the application itself, menus, 
> >>>>>> etc, look worse than they did prior to the upgrade.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> They appear thicker and vertically longer "stretched" out - has anyone 
> >>>>> seen this behaviour?
> >>>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> After browsing some different websites and restarting some xchat's, it 
> >>>> appears all the fonts in GTK/Gnome apps are for the worst, I can restore 
> >>>> my system from a previous backup and stop upgrading but was wondering if 
> >>>> someone knew of a fix to revert the fonts back to normal?

Justin,

I had similar font problems after a recent etch dist-upgrade.  I
noticed the gtk font problem with xmms.  As a work-around, you can
create .gtkrc in your home directory, and put in something like this:

  style "user-font"
   {
    fontset="-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal-*-*-90-*-*-p-*-microsoft-cp1251"
   }

  widget_class "*" style "user-font"

This doesn't address the original cause of the problem/change, I'm
afraid.

-mark