Firefox does not inherit GTK+ font settings

The Nvidia drivers for the GTX 660ti gpu seem to be breaking the font rendering in Firefox' UI. I doubt this issue can be resolved here but in the meantime if anyone is experiencing the same problems their input would be valuable.
Last edited by Rapscallion (2013-02-20 14:21:05)

berbae wrote:
Rapscallion wrote:I realized that the likelyhood of someone in the Arch community providing a fix would be very low
It is even lower when you remove the first description you gave of the problem, with the screenshot you provided then.
I answered what I thought was the problem in the .gtkrc-2.0 file; you could have just quietly said it is not the solution in your case, showing what you have already in the file. No need to use an unpleasant tone.
the best I can do for now is cross my fingers and hope for a driver update to fix it
It would be better to file a bug report at the nvidia driver site, and at Mozilla bug report site, as you told that it concerns only firefox.
I edited it to [fixed] so people would skim over it
But those seeing the thread title could think that it provides a real fix, which it does not.
I will now leave you with your hope for a satisfying fix from more qualified guys than me.
Bye.
Sorry about that, I've spent roughly 5 hours non stop trying to fix this issue, the most recent one leading me to believe the issue is not with Pango either. I hate to be walking on eggs so I hope you'll understand I did not mean to be condescending at all.

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