On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:30:49PM -0500, Kevin Horton wrote:
A message today about messed up fonts in X11 prompted me to do an experiment.
The original poster reported that his font display was improved by renaming the .fonts/ directory that was in his home directory. I tried renaming it, then launching X11. I could see no difference. So, I quit X11, then moved the directory back to .fonts. I started X11, and now I have bold fonts in Mozilla and Firefox. I tried several different fonts, and the bold worked for all of them, but I did not do an exhaustive test. However I am quite certain that some fonts that would not display in bold now work properly. YMMV.
Kevin Horton
Wow, this is great!
I had tried the same trick of removing the .fonts directory when I read this same post on the mailing list too. Unfortunately I do not have a .fonts directory, I only have a .fonts.cache-1 file in my home directory. The operation you described does not work for me. Moreover, whatever I do with this file (remove it or replacing it with an empty file), it winds up being created again with the exact same content whenever I lauch X11 (I use Apple's X11).
Would it be possible for you to post the content of your .fonts directory somewhere, so I could try using the same files you have?
Clemence
Well, if a user moving or renaming it makes a difference and it is installed by some other automated process, then (to me) it sounds like there may be a permissions/ownership issue going on.
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