Try looking in your XF86Config-4 file and move the type1 fontpath to the end, and if you have a truetype fontpath, move it to the beginning. If that solves you problem its because X uses the first font in the fontpath that fits the description, and it usually doesn't handle type1 fonts very well.
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 04:26:24PM -0000, Rosenstrauch, David wrote: > Hi all. Perhaps someone can help with a problem I've been having. > > Been in the process of getting a new box configged (Debian stable), and > everything had been going fine. Had been using Firestarter to config the > box's firewall, but wasn't completely pleased with it. So I decided to give > gnome-lokkit a whirl, and that's where my problems began. > > Apparently, dependencies from the install of gnome-lokkit installed and > configged a whole lot of other packages as well. (I can't remember all of > them but IIRC, some gnome packages and some ghostscript packages were relevant > ones among them.) In any case, ever since that, my fonts have been all messed > up. Pretty much any text I see - from the text in the GDM login box through > the menus in IceWM - look weird (kind of jagged). > > Anyone have any idea what got changed and how to fix it? I know about the X > font de-uglification doc, and read through it and tried some of its > suggestions (e.g., changing the font path in XFconfig86) but no help. > > In any case, I was hoping that someone might have some idea what specifically > might have gotten messed up by that specific group of package installs and how > I might undo it, rather than general suggestions on how to fix font problems. > > Also, I'm fairly certain that I wasn't using AA fonts before, and don't > particularly like them, so I'm not too keen on a solution that uses AA fonts. > > > Barring some not-too-difficult solution, I think I'm going to have no choice, > unfortunately, but to blow away the box and start over, since it's a recent > install with very little stuff on it. I'd prefer not to, though, as I've > pretty much just finished getting the OS and all the key software installed > and configged the way I want it, so it'd be several hours of work to do it all > over again. > > > Anyone come across this before and/or have any suggestions? > > TIA! > > DR > > > ============================================================================== > This message is for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you received > this message in error please delete it and notify us. If this message was > misdirected, CSFB does not waive any confidentiality or privilege. CSFB > retains and monitors electronic communications sent through its network. > Instructions transmitted over this system are not binding on CSFB until they > are confirmed by us. Message transmission is not guaranteed to be secure. > ============================================================================== > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
