The suggestion in comment #10 works for me. Getting rid of pango- graphite fixes it.
Thanks Václav! This has been keeping me busy for a few hours. I've just upgraded from 12.10 to 13.04. The problem also affected fonts in lightdm greeter and gnome, but fontconfig seemed ok and the fonts in tty1-6 were also ok. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1166125 Title: Ubuntu (Xubuntu) 13.04 beta, broken fonts for Gtk based applications To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtk/+bug/1166125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs