[SOLVED] Infinality patchset font substitution

Roken · 2012-08-19 21:26:37

OK, I decided to test the infinality patchset for my fonts, rather than the ubuntu patches I was using, and by and large I could be happy, but for one very annoying problem.

My preferred desktop font is DejaVu Sans Book, but no matter how many times I try to set it, it gets changed to Verdana. I'm guessing that somewhere Verdana is set up in font substitution, but I can't for the life of me find it.

The same happens if I try to set the terminal font to DejaVu Sans Book, though setting the terminal to DejaVu Sans Mono works (which is what I prefer in a terminal anyway).

I've done my research - but if I'm honest there doesn't seem to be that much documentation around.

Last edited by Roken (2012-08-19 23:25:53)

cfr · 2012-08-19 21:55:02

Where do you get DejaVu Sans Book?

bohoomil · 2012-08-19 22:23:57

Is it possible that you have some redundant (font) config files in your $HOME directory? How do you set your desktop fonts (DE/WM)?

You can set your aliases (sans-serif, serif, mono) in Infinality config files and they should be respected system wide. Unless, of course, you have any additional custom settings in your personal directory as they will always overwrite the defaults...

Roken · 2012-08-19 23:00:10

@cfr - DejaVu Sans - book style
@bohoomil - I've removed all font configuration from ~/ - no change. Setting the font via xfce4 appearance settings. (I can set it via dconf - but that doesn't solve the problem, just works around it)

cfr · 2012-08-19 23:12:24

Oh. Maybe it shows up that way. The font says "Normal" rather than "book style".

Try looking through the substitution tables under /etc/fonts. Verdana is mentioned a fair amount. So is DejaVu Sans.

thisoldman · 2012-08-19 23:15:10

What does this command return?

$ fc-match 'DejaVu Sans'

That will tell you what font will be used when an app requests DejaVu Sans.

I don't have infinality installed. When looking at the sources, there's a file named '41-repl-os-linux.conf'. That file has DejaVu Sans replacing Bitstream Vera Sans and Verdana.

Roken · 2012-08-19 23:25:33

Ahh - thanks guys. You got me looking in the right place. The pesky substitution was in 41-repl-os-win.conf

Now fixed

infinality · 2012-08-21 03:40:20

Roken wrote:

Ahh - thanks guys. You got me looking in the right place. The pesky substitution was in 41-repl-os-win.conf
Now fixed

Pretty sure that if you change your infinality style to "Linux" it uses DejaVu Sans (or doesn't replace it). By default, it uses "infinality" as the style, purely because I like it and that's the one I use. See /etc/fonts/infinality/infinality.conf (assuming Arch uses that).

Roken · 2012-08-21 06:42:56

I actually tried working through several of the styles thinking that may fix it, but it didn't (unless I just got unlucky and didn't hit the right one), but not an issue now that it's fixed

Arch Linux

#1 2012-08-19 21:26:37

[SOLVED] Infinality patchset font substitution

#2 2012-08-19 21:55:02

Re: [SOLVED] Infinality patchset font substitution

#3 2012-08-19 22:23:57

Re: [SOLVED] Infinality patchset font substitution

#4 2012-08-19 23:00:10

Re: [SOLVED] Infinality patchset font substitution

#5 2012-08-19 23:12:24

Re: [SOLVED] Infinality patchset font substitution

#6 2012-08-19 23:15:10

Re: [SOLVED] Infinality patchset font substitution

#7 2012-08-19 23:25:33

Re: [SOLVED] Infinality patchset font substitution

#8 2012-08-21 03:40:20

Re: [SOLVED] Infinality patchset font substitution

#9 2012-08-21 06:42:56

Re: [SOLVED] Infinality patchset font substitution

Board footer