Bug#199111: xfs: Very ugly fonts
Package: xfs
Version: 4.2.1-6
Severity: normal
For some reason when I upgraded from some previous version of xfs[*],
and all the non-fixed-width fonts used by twm, mozilla, and pretty
much every other application I use (all non-gnome/kde) became horribly
ugly; it appeared that scalable fonts were being used (without any
anti-aliasing/sub-pixel rendering) when perfectly good bitmap fonts
were available.
I was able to correct this by editing
/etc/X11/fs/config and changing the catalogue line as follows:
catalogue = /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
I don't know if this is the correct solution, but my fonts all look
nice again.
<curmudgeon>
This is the first time I've had to fix my fonts in eight or so years
of using Debian. It looks to me like the catalogue line was changed
to get anti-aliased scalable fonts working. I don't have anything
against anti-aliased fonts per se, but they are of virtually no use to
me, so it is very annoying to have to spend an hour reading through
the debian-user archive to fix all my non-anti-aliased fonts!
</curmudgeon>
[*] I don't know exactly which upgrade is the culprit, because I
didn't notice any problem until I rebooted my machine much later,
causing xfs to be restarted.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux herring 2.4.20 #1 Wed Jan 22 13:56:20 GMT 2003 ppc
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA
Versions of packages xfs depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-11 compression library - runtime
-- no debconf information
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