FS#4963 - fontconfig sometimes requires a reinstall for fonts to work properly
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Arch Linux
Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Wednesday, 05 July 2006, 03:11 GMT
Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Wednesday, 05 July 2006, 03:11 GMT
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There's some mighty weird stuff going on with fontconfig
right now, which seems to be dependent on the presence of
other packages. Here is what happens in four different types
of desktop environments.
On Xfce4-SVN: if fontconfig is not reinstalled after its first installation, antialiasing doesn't work, fonts look very bad (chunky and distorted), and bitmap fonts are not registered even if specifically enabled. After reinstalling fontconfig, everything is as it should be. On Gnome and GTK-based DIY environments (e.g. FVWM + ROX): antialiasing works right, and fonts look fine, but bitmap fonts are still unusable even when enabled. Again, reinstalling fontconfig fixes this. On KDE: No AA problems, bitmap fonts work fine to begin with if enabled. No reinstall is required. Running fc-cache or ldconfig as root (as specified in the fontconfig install script) doesn't seem to help, which makes me think that this might be a case of some GTK-related package(s) messing things up. |
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Closed by Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 05 July 2006, 06:05 GMT
Reason for closing: Duplicate
Additional comments about closing: Please don't open many bugs about the same item, take a look at 4712, which is also opened by you.
Wednesday, 05 July 2006, 06:05 GMT
Reason for closing: Duplicate
Additional comments about closing: Please don't open many bugs about the same item, take a look at 4712, which is also opened by you.