Crazy font in Wine

elcalen · 2006-03-07 22:32:45

Hi,

I just re-installed Wine after removing it for a while, and to my surprise when I start a program, like winecfg or some .exe file, it uses a strange font (a ttf font I have installed, I'm sure), which is practically unreadable!

Probably a simple enough configuration issue, but I'm way too tired to figure this out right now...

Freaky T · 2006-03-08 23:05:11

I remember seeing something like this once before; I just fixed it by deleting my .wine directory.

shadowhand · 2006-03-08 23:12:51

If that doesn't fix it, try commenting out all your font dirs in xorg.conf (note the "misc" dir is required for X to start).

elcalen · 2006-03-10 20:10:28

I've tried removing the .wine directory, to no effect. I checked the xorg.conf file, but it doesn't appear to contain any font directories. (There doesn't even appear to be a "misc" there, but X works just fine.)

Gullible Jones · 2006-03-10 21:39:08

The font has changed, but from what I can see the only difference is that it's a bit larger and appears to be antialiased... :?

Perhaps you could give us a screenshot?

elcalen · 2006-03-10 23:39:06

I can't get a screenshot right now, but it's using a more or less random ttf font from my selection (called Earwig Factory, I think), which is (at the default size) almost unreadable... I have no idea why it's using this particular font. I've got all the basic MS fonts installed, and the other free font packages from the Arch repos...

EDIT: Well, if I remove the directory containing all the ttf fonts I've downloaded from the web, Wine uses a readable font (unsurprisingly, since the font it used earlier doesn't exist)... But obviously I need the various fonts I've collected...

EDIT 2: If I remove just the font in question, Earwig Factory, it seems to work ok (doesn't pick another weird font instead)... But of course this is only a workaround, not a solution. I have absolutely no idea why it would pick that font as a default font...

Gullible Jones · 2006-03-11 01:33:32

Hmmm... does the font look anything like the one in this screenshot?

If it does I can see what you're talking about... It looks like some handwritten-style font, and although it's usually pretty readable, it gets quite annoying under some conditions.

elcalen · 2006-03-11 11:43:56

That looks like the same font I have now, after removing the above mentioned "Earwig Factory" font.

jakob · 2006-03-11 15:20:44

Hm, i had the same strange problem after the xorg-update, i had a font which was very small and hat many flourishes... i just took a verdana.ttf which i found on my system and cp'd it to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts (it was the only file in there then)

From that time on, i had a readable font in all wine-apps

droog · 2006-03-11 20:26:26

hah, delete the .wine directory to fix a font? that would delete everything you installed through wine. hellwoofa seems to have the right idea.

sh__ · 2006-03-12 00:23:05

That font in Gullible's screenshot looks like Comic Sans MS.

elcalen · 2006-03-13 21:06:46

You're right, I think it is Comic Sans.

Arch Linux

#1 2006-03-07 22:32:45

Crazy font in Wine

#2 2006-03-08 23:05:11

Re: Crazy font in Wine

#3 2006-03-08 23:12:51

Re: Crazy font in Wine

#4 2006-03-10 20:10:28

Re: Crazy font in Wine

#5 2006-03-10 21:39:08

Re: Crazy font in Wine

#6 2006-03-10 23:39:06

Re: Crazy font in Wine

#7 2006-03-11 01:33:32

Re: Crazy font in Wine

#8 2006-03-11 11:43:56

Re: Crazy font in Wine

#9 2006-03-11 15:20:44

Re: Crazy font in Wine

#10 2006-03-11 20:26:26

Re: Crazy font in Wine

#11 2006-03-12 00:23:05

Re: Crazy font in Wine

#12 2006-03-13 21:06:46

Re: Crazy font in Wine

Board footer