Re: fonts look like crud in 0.23.1

[Lee Willis <lwillis plus net>]

todd kennedy <todd selfassembled org> writes:

> I should clarify a little more.
> 
> It's not so much that there are no fonts installed, it's that all the
> fonts look the same.  If you'll notice in the screen shot, I have
> "Sans" chosen as my font - yet all the fonts on the screen are serif
> (and the terminal is particularly bad).
> 
> I'm running Debian 3.0 on an Apple G4 (so it's debian-ppc)
> 
> Garnome 0.22.0 had no font problems like this, which is weird, and I
> have a whole ton of fonts installed under /usr/share/fonts and
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/
> 
> http://robotholocaust.com/badfonts.jpg
> 
> is the screenshot.
> 
> thanks for the help.

I believe this the is the fontconfig bug mentioned earlier. Try creting
a symlink in /etc called fonts pointing at $HOME/garnome/etc/fonts and
re-start.

Not very elegant - but it worked for me ...

Lee
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