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I recently installed my first archlinux system and while everything is legible, fonts in many applications don't look very good. I suspect that I need to install and/or manage fonts explicitly, but it's not clear where to start.
I have looked at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/fonts#Font_formats and while it has lots of useful information, it doesn't make recommendations.
Here are a few of the things I'd like to fix:
The default fonts in Seamonkey and rstudio are particularly bad: uneven and rough looking, as if anti-aliasing is off.
In Firefox and Thunderbird, the menu fonts are too large (these apps let you choose fonts for content, but not for menus). The default content fonts are a little rough.
Thus far, I haven't done anything to explicitly install or manage fonts. I have whatever was pulled in when I installed graphics related packages, presumably
xorg-server
xorg-server-utils
xorg-apps
gdm
mate
enlightenement
and various applications.
FYI re my system:
archlinux is up to date per 'pacman -Syu'.
Graphics chip: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
Monitor: Benq 1920 x 1080 60hz.
I'd appreciate any suggestions re how to proceed and/or what to read about fonts.
thanks
PS Looking around the arch documentation, I came across the package https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Infinality that looked promising but I wasn't able to get it to install.
I added
[infinality-bundle]
Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/$arch
[infinality-bundle-fonts]
Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/$arch
[infinality-bundle-multilib]
Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/multilib/$arch
to pacman.conf and ran
pacman-key -r keyid 962DDE58
But when I tried to install infinality
pacman -S infinality-bundle
I got the error message
warning: database file for 'infinality-bundle' does not exist
warning: database file for 'infinality-bundle-fonts' does not exist
warning: database file for 'infinality-bundle-multilib' does not exist
error: target not found: infinality-bundle
Any thoughts about this package and why it won't install?
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You need to sync the new repos after adding them before pacman knows about the packages they contain.
pacman -Syu
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Thanks. Looks like there's a problem with the infinality key. I.e.
# pacman -Syu
error: infinality-bundle: signature from "bohoomil (dev key) <bohoomil@zoho.com>" is unknown trust
error: infinality-bundle-multilib: signature from "bohoomil (dev key) <bohoomil@zoho.com>" is unknown trust
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
infinality-bundle 4.3 KiB 1439K/s 00:00 [######################################################################] 100%
infinality-bundle.sig 287.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [######################################################################] 100%
error: infinality-bundle: signature from "bohoomil (dev key) <bohoomil@zoho.com>" is unknown trust
error: failed to update infinality-bundle (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: failed retrieving file 'infinality-bundle-fonts.db' from bohoomil.com : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed to update infinality-bundle-fonts (unexpected error)
infinality-bundle-multilib 2.0 KiB 0.00B/s 00:00 [######################################################################] 100%
infinality-bundle-multilib.sig 287.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [######################################################################] 100%
error: infinality-bundle-multilib: signature from "bohoomil (dev key) <bohoomil@zoho.com>" is unknown trust
error: failed to update infinality-bundle-multilib (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: database 'infinality-bundle' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: database 'infinality-bundle-multilib' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
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I did install the keyid before trying pacman -Syu, and got the above errors. I'm going to give up on Infinality for now.
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You mention that you ran "pacman-key -r ..." to import the key, but not that you signed it with "pacman-key --lsign-key ...". Did you forget to do that?
Last edited by Ropid (2016-05-20 21:02:26)
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I had not, thanks. I was able to access
[infinality-bundle]
Server = http://bohoomil.com/repo/$arch
([infinality-bundle-fonts] and [infinality-bundle-multilib] still generated errors,, so I removed them from pacman.conf)
and did install infinality-bundle.
Now it remains to be seen if it makes a difference.
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Installng the infinality-bundle does seem to have improved things. Now I need to figure out what it actually did.
Did it substitute a different set of fonts and/or did it change something re rendering?
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