On 6/10/06, Peter B. Steiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I installed some decorative fonts from Windows into my TrueType font folder, and alphabetically the first one is "1st Grader", a childlike crayon scrawl... and suddenly the fonts on every X application that does not specify its own fonts uses that scrawl by default. I removed my entire /usr/X11R7/share/X11/app-defaults folder to make sure nothing in X itself was causing this, then I logged on with my test account (which has an empty $HOME folder), and still the scrawl was there even with no personalized .gnome, .gnome2, .gconf, or .gconfd folders present. Only when I removed gnome-settings-daemon from .xinitrc did the fonts revert to something readable, so I know gnome itself is somehow causing this. But where? When I go into the font selection screen (gnome-font-properties) there is nothing about non-Gnome application fonts such as XTerm, and none of the font selections there refer to any of my TrueType decorative fonts. In any case, since the problem occurs even when I wipe all .g* folders out of $HOME, it's clearly a default coming from somewhere in the /usr/gnome2 tree. Needless to say, I never set up any configuration in the default folders there for the 1st-grader font.
I'm having a hard time understanding this situation, so the best I can do here is point you to some material that could help. First, there are no Gnome fonts. There are Fontconfig fonts which are used by the GTK+ toolkit. Those are the nicely rendered TrueType ones. Unfortunately, wiping any .g* folder won't affect your situation since Fontconfig policy isn't set there. Also, no setting in X11/share/app-defaults will affect this either. Please read the page below in the svn book. Hopefully, it will shed some light on the situation. Possibly it will convince you to segregate your fonts. Have a look at the fontconfig page, too. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/x-setup.html#fonts http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/fontconfig.html -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
