Since I last upgraded my Debian Testing/Etch system some GTK applications, Endeavour2 for example, display a fairly awful font which I cannot change and some others, gFtp for example display a perfectly acceptable font.
I have installed the Gtk Theme Engine package which gives me, in theory, the ability to change font/theme for GTK in the KDE Control Centre but whatever I do the font doesn't change. All the KDE fonts are fine.
I have both GTK 1 and GTK 2 installed.
Some suggestions as to how to fix this would be very welcome.
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 06:46:42PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote:
Since I last upgraded my Debian Testing/Etch system some GTK applications, Endeavour2 for example, display a fairly awful font which I cannot change and some others, gFtp for example display a perfectly acceptable font.
I have installed the Gtk Theme Engine package which gives me, in theory, the ability to change font/theme for GTK in the KDE Control Centre but whatever I do the font doesn't change. All the KDE fonts are fine.
I have both GTK 1 and GTK 2 installed.
Some suggestions as to how to fix this would be very welcome.
Hmmm, sounds very similar to what happened to me not so long ago - I took the slightly nasty route that meant removing most of X and starting again... I basically removed all of the fonts, fontconfig and defoma, then reinstalled the lots of it (I was being lazy), I think it's related to the x.org changes, but I couldn't pin point it. Meant that I cleared off rather a few packages though - which I then (mostly) reinstalled :)
Good luck!
On 06/06/06 19:11:00, Brett Parker wrote:
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 06:46:42PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote:
Since I last upgraded my Debian Testing/Etch system some GTK applications, Endeavour2 for example, display a fairly awful font
which I cannot change and some others, gFtp for example display a perfectly acceptable font.
I have installed the Gtk Theme Engine package which gives me, in theory, the ability to change font/theme for GTK in the KDE Control
Centre but whatever I do the font doesn't change. All the KDE fonts
are fine.
I have both GTK 1 and GTK 2 installed.
Some suggestions as to how to fix this would be very welcome.
Hmmm, sounds very similar to what happened to me not so long ago - I took the slightly nasty route that meant removing most of X and starting again... I basically removed all of the fonts, fontconfig and defoma, then reinstalled the lots of it (I was being lazy), I think it's related to the x.org changes, but I couldn't pin point it. Meant that I cleared off rather a few packages though - which I then (mostly) reinstalled :)
Good luck!
Brett Parker
Thanks Brett but I really don't want to go through all that. I think I'd rather put up with the dreadful fonts. :-))
Hi Barry
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 22:13, Barry Samuels wrote:
... I basically removed all of the fonts, fontconfig and defoma, then reinstalled the lots of it (I was being lazy),
Thanks Brett but I really don't want to go through all that. I think I'd rather put up with the dreadful fonts. :-))
Would `apt-get intsall --reinstall fontconfig deforma` fix things ?
The thinking here is it would trigger deforma's setup scripts and possibly resolve the ugly fonts.. Although it might be a breakage in the Etch packages.
Regards, Paul.
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 10:34:48PM +0100, Paul wrote:
Hi Barry
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 22:13, Barry Samuels wrote:
... I basically removed all of the fonts, fontconfig ? and defoma, then reinstalled the lots of it (I was being lazy),
Thanks Brett but I really don't want to go through all that. I think ? I'd rather put up with the dreadful fonts. :-))
Would `apt-get intsall --reinstall fontconfig deforma` fix things ?
The thinking here is it would trigger deforma's setup scripts and possibly resolve the ugly fonts.. Although it might be a breakage in the Etch packages.
Didn't work for me :(
But then I appeared to have a slightly odd problem anyways...
Out of interest, Barry, if you run a dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig, do you get back an error about the "default config" and it not finding it? If so, it sounds very much the same as the problem that I had. It *might* be possible to unpack the fontconfig deb and work out what's going on.
Cheers,
On 06/06/06 22:52:36, Brett Parker wrote:
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 10:34:48PM +0100, Paul wrote:
Would `apt-get intsall --reinstall fontconfig deforma` fix things ?
The thinking here is it would trigger deforma's setup scripts and
possibly resolve the ugly fonts.. Although it might be a breakage in the Etch packages.
Didn't work for me :(
But then I appeared to have a slightly odd problem anyways...
Out of interest, Barry, if you run a dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig, do you get back an error about the "default config" and it not finding it? If so, it sounds very much the same as the problem that I had. It *might* be possible to unpack the fontconfig deb and work out what's going on.
Cheers,
Brett Parker
Brett - I ran 'dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig' and had no error messages at all.
Paul - I may well try your suggestion later - thanks.
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