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Ebe

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Registered: 2017-11-16

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[SOLVED] How to fix the terrible font in firefox in KDE?

Firefox displays nearly everything in monospace font.

It was installed using `pacman` in Arch running KDE plasma 5.11 (in Virtualbox).

I've searched all over the place to find a suitable solution,. Most of which lead to KDE in Ubuntu instructing to delete the `fonts.conf` file but couldn't find any that would relate to Arch.

Could anyone please show how to fix this?

Last edited by Ebe (2017-11-16 10:23:26)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] How to fix the terrible font in firefox in KDE?

You can define the font to be used from within firefox... Settings --> Language & Appearance --> Fonts

Ebe

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Re: [SOLVED] How to fix the terrible font in firefox in KDE?

Thank you for the reply.

I set the font to serif just like it is on my Ubuntu desktop, but the problem still persists. What should I do?

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] How to fix the terrible font in firefox in KDE?

You can set a global GTK font in the system settings dialog, you could set a GTK font manually, you can set the general font substitutions to be used in KDE's system settings, you can manually define XMLs etcetc. Do you have a proper font installed?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE#Fonts
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Font_alias -- to find out what is currently defined for Serif

How did you install Arch?

Mod note: Moving to NC

Last edited by V1del (2017-11-16 09:54:58)

Ebe

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Re: [SOLVED] How to fix the terrible font in firefox in KDE?

Thank you ever so much. Installing those font packages (ttf-dejavu and ttf-liberation) using `pacman -S` solved the problem.

May I know how to mark this solved? (It's my first time here :-))

Last edited by Ebe (2017-11-16 10:17:27)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] How to fix the terrible font in firefox in KDE?

You can edit your first post and add [solved] to your title.

Ebe

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Re: [SOLVED] How to fix the terrible font in firefox in KDE?

Done. Thanks again.