Package: xfs Version: 4.2.1-6 Severity: normal
For some reason when I upgraded from some previous version of xfs[*], and all the non-fixed-width fonts used by twm, mozilla, and pretty much every other application I use (all non-gnome/kde) became horribly ugly; it appeared that scalable fonts were being used (without any anti-aliasing/sub-pixel rendering) when perfectly good bitmap fonts were available. I was able to correct this by editing /etc/X11/fs/config and changing the catalogue line as follows: catalogue = /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ I don't know if this is the correct solution, but my fonts all look nice again. <curmudgeon> This is the first time I've had to fix my fonts in eight or so years of using Debian. It looks to me like the catalogue line was changed to get anti-aliased scalable fonts working. I don't have anything against anti-aliased fonts per se, but they are of virtually no use to me, so it is very annoying to have to spend an hour reading through the debian-user archive to fix all my non-anti-aliased fonts! </curmudgeon> [*] I don't know exactly which upgrade is the culprit, because I didn't notice any problem until I rebooted my machine much later, causing xfs to be restarted. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: powerpc Kernel: Linux herring 2.4.20 #1 Wed Jan 22 13:56:20 GMT 2003 ppc Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA Versions of packages xfs depends on: ii libc6 2.3.1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-11 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information
