fonts have gone insane

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

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Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Coleman Kane wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm in the same boat here. It would seem that all of the fonts in my
>> GTK/GNOME apps are messed up now and I am left with replacements of
>> some
>> core fonts. Seems to have coincided with some recent portupgrade,
>> but I
>> can't figure out what has done it. I recently upgraded
>> x11-toolkits/gtk20 but the original poster mentions xfce...
>>
>> Trying to rebuild/install fontconfig...
>>
>> I tried the above removal of the /var/db/fontconfig directory which
>> helped out none.
>>
>>  
> I ran into this with the Gnome 2.20 upgrade. I believe it has
> something to do with anti-aliased fonts being used instead of bitmap
> ones. I *think* it is to do with Xorg 7.3 rather than Gnome.... but
> there is Gnome stuff you can do that sorts it if Gnome is your
> window manager (see thread "Fonts, windows too large after 2.20
> upgrade" in freebsd-gnome list).
>
> For other window managers I'm not sure what you need to do (there
> must be some xorg.conf magic - surely???). Maybe ask on the Xorg
> mailing lists? (and enlighten us when you discover the answer!)

After redoing a buildworld on sources that have been updated by new
stuff committed during th portupgrade -afk the problem has cleared it
self (I need to undo some changes I made to my settings)




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