Re: Issues with PCF and BDF Fonts after regular lenny updates
Hi,
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:21:39PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
>
> I do my usual Lenny/Testing updates every couple of days and this time
> however, my terminal and X fonts are messed up.
>
> The curios thing is that it is only PCF or BDF fonts. TrueType fonts
> display correctly.
>
> For example, I use slim X11 session manager and this specific theme
> uses snap.pcf (from artwiz). It can't seem to find snap.pcf and thus
> defaults to Bitstream or some other font.
>
> Same issue with urxvt. I use Dina.bdf for that and now it displays a
> super large font. If I change urxvt to use Liberation Sans or Courier,
> everything works as expected.
>
> After looking at logs, I figured the only cause was my last set of
> updates included updates to fontconfig. I searched bug reports but to
> no avail.
>
> I am not too familiar with fonts on linux systems so any help would be
> appreciated. Maybe I just need to rebuild the font caches? How do I do
> that?
>
> Also, I don't use GNOME or KDE so CLI method is preferable.
Now default font set are picked via fontconfig thing.
http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch08.en.html#fontsinthexwindow
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