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`dannyb

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From: /dev/null & aka Minnesota

Registered: 2009-01-27

Posts: 34

Font settings change when a font is installed

Hey guys I come to you today with sort of a weird issue that I am experiencing. First off let me just say that I have a clean installation of Xorg, Gnome, & Compiz with nothing but the default fonts. I really like the default fonts but recently I wanted to install mplayer which required a separate font to be installed. I allowed pacman to install the font and immediately after completing the font for all my windows including my terminal windows was now bigger. The size & DPI did not change because I checked in System, Preferences, Appearance, Fonts before & after the install. As soon as I removed the font my font settings would return to what they were before. Does anybody know what is causing this?

Thank you so much,

Dan

bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: Font settings change when a font is installed

Hard to tell. Could be caused by some font characteristics.
Which font package did you install?
Which terminal are you using?
Can you provide a screenshot (before/after install)?

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sm4tik

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From: Finland, Jyväskylä

Registered: 2006-11-05

Posts: 248

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Re: Font settings change when a font is installed

I think this is because the clean install which you have, doesn't include the fonts in your settings and the system falls back for fonts which you have installed with Xorg. So what happens is when you install ttf-dejavu with mplayer, the dejavu family takes over. I think the size issue is probably caused by the default fonts not having a better match in size for your prefrences and now that you install a truely scaleable font, it just basically uses the right size instead of a closest match.
Hope this makes any sense / is of any help..

`dannyb

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From: /dev/null & aka Minnesota

Registered: 2009-01-27

Posts: 34

Re: Font settings change when a font is installed

I somewhat understand that and you probably know what question I am going to ask next; is there any way I make it so it uses the original settings? Also in reply to Bernarcher, here is the Before & here is the After . Thanks again for your help guys I greatly appreciate it!

bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

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Re: Font settings change when a font is installed

Did you try the system font settings?
System -> Control Center -> Look and Feel: Appearance -> Fonts

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`dannyb

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From: /dev/null & aka Minnesota

Registered: 2009-01-27

Posts: 34

Re: Font settings change when a font is installed

Yes I did try with the Fonts applet to no avail

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,577

Re: Font settings change when a font is installed

My guess is that the system font is set to something like Sans or another generic name, and further guessing, that setting uses the first available Sans font (or whatever) it can find. With the Microsoft fonts installed, it uses those.

Try using other fonts until you get the same font as before. Likely it'll be a DeJaVu something or a Bitstream Vera something. Keep in mind this is just a guess.