Arch Linux

detto

Member

Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 510

FIX for weird font problems after fresh arch install

I got damn ugly fonts with a fresh and in my eyes complete correct install.
To resolve it i asked on IRC and this finally is what i did and it worked!

Its fontconfig that is making trouble.

configs=('20-fix-globaladvance.conf'
         '20-lohit-gujarati.conf'
         '20-unhint-small-vera.conf'
         '30-amt-aliases.conf'
         '30-urw-aliases.conf'
         '30-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf'
         '40-generic.conf'
         '49-sansserif.conf'
         '50-user.conf'
         '51-local.conf'
         '60-latin.conf'
         '65-fonts-persian.conf'
         '65-nonlatin.conf'
         '69-unifont.conf'
         '80-delicious.conf'
         '90-synthetic.conf')

Those fonts are from install file from the fontconfig package.
Link all of them in /etc/fonts/conf.d by doing:

cd /etc/fonts/conf.d

and execute

ln -sf ../conf.avail/20-fix-globaladvance.conf ../conf.avail/20-lohit-gujarati.conf ../conf.avail/.....  .

Dont forget the . on end
Re-login and enjoy

Sigi

Member

From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: FIX for weird font problems after fresh arch install

If this really works, you'll be my hero of the day!! I searched for at least 3 hours yesterday to find out why all the fonts of my new liveCD are fscked up everytime... Thanks a lot, I'll report back!

edit: Thanks a lot! I owe you at least one beer, man...

cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
for i in ../conf.avail/* ; do ln -s $i . ; done 

.. did it.

---

Haven't been here in a while. Still rocking Arch.

JGC

Developer

Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: FIX for weird font problems after fresh arch install

hmm

Seems I didn't put the symlink stuff in the post_install, only in post_upgrade. Thanks for noticing, a -3 with fixed postinstall is on its way.

Sigi

Member

From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: FIX for weird font problems after fresh arch install

Thanks, JGC. You can close this Bug when -3 is released. (Sorry if I made you additional work because of the Bug Report)

---

Haven't been here in a while. Still rocking Arch.

detto

Member

Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 510

Re: FIX for weird font problems after fresh arch install

Hey sigi, no problem for that. JGC was the one who pointed me to that, so we both have to thank him i guess