Yes, I did have a ~/.fonts.conf file. I don't remember ever creating it,
and definitely didn't put it there myself while running Edgy (so it
would have been there in Dapper, but I didn't have these problems
there). I've removed it and fonts in konsole, firefox, kmail are all
fine. Thank you. Apolog
See the following close-up photos:
www.whatsbeef.net/wabz/screwedfonts.jpg
The firefox m is from the "Bookmarks" menu and looks very bad at a normal
distance. The gedit m is from the "Documents" menu and looks crisp.
The following screenshot shows my font settings, a urx
