On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 04:29:02PM +0200, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2012/07/08 16:14, David Coppa wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> > > Various web sites specify the use of a font named "clean" in their
> > > CSS.  We have a bitmapped font by that name and Firefox at least
> > > ends up choosing it over its normal Trutype fallback font.  The result
> > > is... ugly.
> > >
> > > For some affected sites, try www.20minutes.fr or www.sueddeutsche.de.
> > >
> > > I don't know what to do about this, but it is annoying.
> > 
> > This should be a working trick (the bits at the end):
> > 
> > https://github.com/jcs/dotfiles/blob/master/.fonts.conf
> > 
> > ciao
> > David
> > 
> 
> I'm slightly less than keen on what that does to my terminals using terminus 
> ;)
> 

If your terminals still use server-side rendered fonts (like Xterm
does, unless told explicitly to use Xft/fontconfig) they won't be
affected. 

But yes I'm not thrilled at banning non-truetype fonts completely from
fontconfig. This is probably too gross as a default setting.
-- 
Matthieu Herrb

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