On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:57:27PM +0100, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: > Does anyone know where in Debian default fonts for X are set? > > After a recent apt-get upgrade apparently some config file as changed, to > the effect that an application that I use switched from a fixed width font > (courier 10) to a proportional font (Helvetica 12 apparently). > > Setting the KDE fonts does not help: apparently that only applies to > window widgets etc., not to the content of the windows. > > The program does not have a config file. There is no reference for it in > my .Xdefaults . In fact, I have no idea which X object settings it would > listen to: I tried entering plausible phrases into my .Xdefaults that > would set the font type for this application, but apparently it does not > use them. > > Any hints will be appreciated.
Fairly recently, as I recall, both XF86Config-4 and the files in /etc/fonts have been fiddled with by upgrades for me. If it's an old app it probably doesn't use fontconfig (/etc/fonts/) (though it might use its predecessor, configured in /etc/X11/XftConfig). But I suggest checking the font paths carefully in all those spots. I've recently been investigating courier for a probably unrelated problem (bug #191914), and I found Courier provided by Adobe and Speedo fonts. So anything that knocked those out, or put other stuff ahead of them in the font list, might have caused the switch.
