Bug 33352 – [Fontconfig] Gnome default system font "Sans" unreadable after remerging fontconfig 2.2.1

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description JoWilly 2003-11-12 17:39:28 UTC]

Hi,

Fontconfig 2.2.1 was installed and working fine.

After remerging it (fontconfig 2.2.1) the default Gnome system font "Sans" (which seems to be an alias in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf ?) is replaced by a small "CartWright" font.

The result is that everything is unreadable and I have to change all gnome apps preferences manually to a readable Sans-serif font (cannot change the gdm user login font as I don't know where to change it).

I have run fc-cache -vf , didn't change anything.
The CartWright font doesn't show up in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf

All other fonts are working properly.

[Comment 1 JoWilly 2003-11-14 08:40:34 UTC]

After I unmerge sharefonts and freefonts I finaly get a acceptable readable system font.

If I remerge these 2 packages, the problem happens again.

So it looks like fontconfig is messing things up ? or is it Gnome ?

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2003-11-15 11:42:29 UTC]

attach your fonts.conf please and your user ~/.fonts.conf if it exists

[Comment 3 JoWilly 2003-11-15 16:00:59 UTC]

Created attachment 20793 [details]
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf

/etc/fonts/fonts.conf attached

[Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) 2004-06-02 05:16:11 UTC]

Sorry for no reply here, i think i forgot submit an earlier comment.

I don't see anything wrong here, all major font dirs are covered by fontconfig. All that I can think of is that you removed all good fonts somehow. Try emerging ttf-bitstream-vera, it should provide a good default font for the sans alias.

[Comment 5 foser (RETIRED) 2004-08-08 07:38:24 UTC]

no reply.. sorry i didn't reply sooner.