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Hello.
I'm running a Xfce4 DE, and I seem to be having an issue with my system font. It started after installing vlc, and the accompanying ttf-freefont package.
Here is an example of what is happening.
The top pic is with the messed up font, and the bottom is what it loked like after a fresh install of Arch with Xfce4.
As you can see several of the letters in the text overlap. The thing is that I never changed the system font, and only the size, after the inital Arch install.
This problem affects all sorts of programs... Terminal, Firefox, wxHexEditor, etc.
In the case of my hex editor, it renders it useless.
Last edited by *nixer (2012-03-26 02:04:20)
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First thing, see the forum rules on image sizes.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_Code
Read the wiki for your isssues.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration
Last edited by hadrons123 (2012-03-26 00:37:52)
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Read the wiki for your isssues.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration
Doesn't apply. My questioned concerned why the 'default' system fonts, which were already functional, became 'messed' up. I have no use for the linked article.
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Maybe changing the font size through the Xfce4 settings GUI caused a previously non-existent config file to be written, and this caused unintended side-effects...
What's the content of your ~/.fonts.conf and ~/.gtkrc-2.0? (And any other places where Xfce4 applies its font settings.)
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[...] the bottom is what it loked like after a fresh install of Arch with Xfce4. [...] I never changed the system font, and only the size
Your screenshot of the settings GUI also shows anti-aliasing and hinting enabled. What happens if you disable it, will that make the fonts like they were before?
Last edited by sas (2012-03-30 18:19:54)
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Hello.
I'm running a Xfce4 DE, and I seem to be having an issue with my system font. It started after installing vlc, and the accompanying ttf-freefont package.
Here is an example of what is happening.
The top pic is with the messed up font, and the bottom is what it loked like after a fresh install of Arch with Xfce4.
As you can see several of the letters in the text overlap. The thing is that I never changed the system font, and only the size, after the inital Arch install.
This problem affects all sorts of programs... Terminal, Firefox, wxHexEditor, etc.
In the case of my hex editor, it renders it useless.
Your first image has overlapping fonts because your default fonts has been changed when you installed VLC. You can try removing the ttf-freefont like here
Your second image looks fine(you will need fonts settings as per the wiki, which is why i linked the page), it doesnt have overlapping fonts. what exactly are you asking here?
Last edited by hadrons123 (2012-03-30 18:27:16)
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