Strange fonts in firefox since update to 2.0.0.1

Michael Nottebrock lofi at freebsd.org
Fri Dec 22 09:02:59 PST 2006


On Friday, 22. December 2006 16:56, Heino Tiedemann wrote:
> Michael Nottebrock <lofi at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Friday, 22. December 2006 15:09, Heino Tiedemann wrote:
> >> Hi There,
> >>
> >> since I updated the port www/firefox to the new version
> >> "firefox-2.0.0.1,1" I have e strange, "default font".
> >
> > Like this?
>
> I took a screenshot and put it here:
> <http://rotkap.gmxhome.de/ff-font1.png>
>
> Please take also a look to the URL-line of firefox. It is has a font,
> where it is difficult to distinguish between "i" and "l".

Seems to be a different font, but essentially the same problem - fontconfig 
chooses an ugly font. I guess it depends on the toolkit and selected toolkit 
theme which font is requested for the line edits - in my case, it seems to be 
plain old "fixed" and fontconfig likes to choose this for me:

[lofi at kiste]:0:~ > fc-match fixed-10
12x13ja.pcf.gz: "Fixed" "ja"

That's a bitmap font with japanese and *very* ugly latin gyphs (it used to 
terrorise me for ages by showing up in Konsole as the default font, too).

Fontconfig will use this on my system for both fixed (no size) and fixed-10. 
There's probably a correct way to prevent this, which probably involves 
editing ~/.fonts.conf, but since I reckoned that I'm not going to miss that 
font at all, and I never understood fontconfig syntax and semantics 
completely, I just deleted it - problem solved, here. From looking at that 
screenshot of yours, it seems to be at least a different font for you though.

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