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kodiak

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Registered: 2012-04-26

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[solved] Wrong / weird Font in XFCE since update

I am using XFCE and bohoomils fontconf repository https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate/ for rendering since this is the recommended way?!. I have been using 'Sans' as default font for XFCE. About 6 weeks ago the font look changed completely, some applications show a "wrong" font.

I changed fonts in appearance and in window manager inside XFCE. Most looks ok now, but some applications still show weird fonts. Apparently it applies to 'sans bold', 'sans' itself is fine. However, I do not care actually what font I am using as long as it looks a kind of normal.

In Appearance the drop-down menu offers still the 'Sans'-font, the Font Viewer does not list this one. The best to show you what I mean is done by screenshots:

http://imagepastebin.appspot.com/d/ag9z … lsZRiZuRQM

I really appreciate if someone can tell me how to change the default font for those applications. Apparently they all use the 'Sans'-font which is fucked up since some update.

Last edited by kodiak (2013-11-03 19:05:11)

brebs

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Re: [solved] Wrong / weird Font in XFCE since update

Check:

$ fc-match "sans"
arial.ttf: "Arial" "Normal"

$ fc-match "sans:bold"
arialbd.ttf: "Arial" "Negreta"

$ fc-match "sans:italic"
ariali.ttf: "Arial" "Cursiva"

kodiak

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Re: [solved] Wrong / weird Font in XFCE since update

fc-match "sans"
OFLGoudyStMTT.ttf: "OFL Sorts Mill Goudy TT" "Regular"

fc-match "sans:bold"
UnifrakturCook-Bold.ttf: "UnifrakturCook" "Bold"

fc-match "sans:italic"
OFLGoudyStMTT-Italic.ttf: "OFL Sorts Mill Goudy TT" "Italic"

Seems not to fit. Do you have a suggestion?

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Re: [solved] Wrong / weird Font in XFCE since update

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=170976
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162098

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kodiak

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Re: [solved] Wrong / weird Font in XFCE since update

thx!