Strange fonts in firefox since update to 2.0.0.1

[Heino Tiedemann]

Michael Nottebrock <lofi at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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 am now guessing it comes with the kde-update 3.5.4 -> 3.5.5 these
days. After updating kdebase it appears. Konquror also looks
ugly. Even if it show lokal files & folders.

> I guess it depends on the toolkit and selected toolkit 

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"

here:

rincewind:/home/rotkap> fc-match fixed-10
6x10.pcf.gz: "Fixed" "Regular"

> 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.

So, what should i remove from my $HOME?
drwxr-xr-x   2 rotkap  users   512B 25 Jun  2004 .fonts
-rw-r--r--   1 rotkap  users     0B 10 Dez 20:15 .fonts.cache-1
-rw-r--r--   1 rotkap  users   329B 18 Nov  2004 .fonts.conf

Any Ideas what happend on my system? 

Heino