Hi, On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:21:39PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > I do my usual Lenny/Testing updates every couple of days and this time > however, my terminal and X fonts are messed up. > > The curios thing is that it is only PCF or BDF fonts. TrueType fonts > display correctly. > > For example, I use slim X11 session manager and this specific theme > uses snap.pcf (from artwiz). It can't seem to find snap.pcf and thus > defaults to Bitstream or some other font. > > Same issue with urxvt. I use Dina.bdf for that and now it displays a > super large font. If I change urxvt to use Liberation Sans or Courier, > everything works as expected. > > After looking at logs, I figured the only cause was my last set of > updates included updates to fontconfig. I searched bug reports but to > no avail. > > I am not too familiar with fonts on linux systems so any help would be > appreciated. Maybe I just need to rebuild the font caches? How do I do > that? > > Also, I don't use GNOME or KDE so CLI method is preferable.
Now default font set are picked via fontconfig thing. http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch08.en.html#fontsinthexwindow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
