[SOLVED] Fonts messed up

I recently installed a group of nearly a hundred fonts using gnome-font-viewer, and now I have a couple of minor issues with fonts in my system even after uninstalling them all. For example, LibreOffice menus and GUI fonts should be sans-serif but instead I see some fixed width font that was installed *before*. The same happens when I open a PDF with evince: another fixed width font appears where a sans-serif font should be. I tried to reinstall the involved packages and regenerate the font cache, but the font config tools seem a bit low level for me and I cannot figure out how to revert the situation.
I am using OpenBox with no desktop environment and no display manager.
Last edited by Juanlu001 (2012-05-24 08:58:03)

If I check with fc-match one by one all the fonts listed in the Properties menu of Evince, I always get the same:
$ fc-match ArialMT
c059013l.pfb: "Century Schoolbook L" "Roman"
$ fc-match ArialBlack
c059013l.pfb: "Century Schoolbook L" "Roman"
$ fc-match Arial-BoldMT
c059013l.pfb: "Century Schoolbook L" "Roman"
$ fc-match Wingdings-Regular
c059013l.pfb: "Century Schoolbook L" "Roman"
$ fc-match Tahoma
c059013l.pfb: "Century Schoolbook L" "Roman"
$ fc-match Tahoma,Bold
c059013l.pfb: "Century Schoolbook L" "Roman"
$ fc-match serif
DejaVuSerif.ttf: "DejaVu Serif" "Book"
$ fc-match sans
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
This doesn't make sense either as Century is a serif font. If I upload the PDF to Google Docs, open it with pdf.js or in another Linux distribution or in Windows sans fonts are used, which is the behaviour that used to happen before. I also tested another desktop PDF readers on my system and the problem persisted, even opening it with Inkscape. Any more ideas?

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[SOLVED]Xfce4/Xorg - Fonts messed up

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# File generated by xorgconfig.
# Copyright 2004 The X.Org Foundation
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
# the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
# Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
# all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
# The X.Org Foundation BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
# WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF
# OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
# SOFTWARE.
# Except as contained in this notice, the name of The X.Org Foundation shall
# not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
# dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from
# The X.Org Foundation.
# Refer to the xorg.conf(5) man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# Module section -- this section is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.
Section "Module"
# This loads the DBE extension module.
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
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# Load "xtt"
# This loads the GLX module
# Load "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
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# Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set
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# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
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# RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
# The module search path. The default path is shown here.
# ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules"
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Section "ServerFlags"
# Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is
# received. This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may
# provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging
# Option "NoTrapSignals"
# Uncomment this to disable the <Ctrl><Alt><Fn> VT switch sequence
# (where n is 1 through 12). This allows clients to receive these key
# events.
# Option "DontVTSwitch"
# Uncomment this to disable the <Ctrl><Alt><BS> server abort sequence
# This allows clients to receive this key event.
# Option "DontZap"
# Uncomment this to disable the <Ctrl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> mode switching
# sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events.
# Option "Dont Zoom"
# Uncomment this to disable tuning with the xvidtune client. With
# it the client can still run and fetch card and monitor attributes,
# but it will not be allowed to change them. If it tries it will
# receive a protocol error.
# Option "DisableVidModeExtension"
# Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local xvidtune client.
# Option "AllowNonLocalXvidtune"
# Uncomment this to disable dynamically modifying the input device
# (mouse and keyboard) settings.
# Option "DisableModInDev"
# Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local client to
# change the keyboard or mouse settings (currently only xset).
# Option "AllowNonLocalModInDev"
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# Input devices
# Core keyboard's InputDevice section
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
# For most OSs the protocol can be omitted (it defaults to "Standard").
# When using XQUEUE (only for SVR3 and SVR4, but not Solaris),
# uncomment the following line.
# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
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# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# Option "LeftAlt" "Meta"
# Option "RightAlt" "ModeShift"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
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# Option "XkbVariant" ""
# Option "XkbOptions" ""
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Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier and driver
Identifier "Mouse1"
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Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
# When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
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# Option "Protocol" "Xqueue"
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# Option "Resolution" "256"
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# Option "BaudRate" "9600"
# Option "SampleRate" "150"
# Mouse wheel mapping. Default is to map vertical wheel to buttons 4 & 5,
# horizontal wheel to buttons 6 & 7. Change if your mouse has more than
# 3 buttons and you need to map the wheel to different button ids to avoid
# conflicts.
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# Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)
# Option "Emulate3Buttons"
# Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
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# Other input device sections
# this is optional and is required only if you
# are using extended input devices. This is for example only. Refer
# to the xorg.conf man page for a description of the options.
# Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "Mouse2"
# Driver "mouse"
# Option "Protocol" "MouseMan"
# Option "Device" "/dev/mouse2"
# EndSection
# Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "spaceball"
# Driver "magellan"
# Option "Device" "/dev/cua0"
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# Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "spaceball2"
# Driver "spaceorb"
# Option "Device" "/dev/cua0"
# EndSection
# Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "touchscreen0"
# Driver "microtouch"
# Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
# Option "MinX" "1412"
# Option "MaxX" "15184"
# Option "MinY" "15372"
# Option "MaxY" "1230"
# Option "ScreenNumber" "0"
# Option "ReportingMode" "Scaled"
# Option "ButtonNumber" "1"
# Option "SendCoreEvents"
# EndSection
# Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "touchscreen1"
# Driver "elo2300"
# Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
# Option "MinX" "231"
# Option "MaxX" "3868"
# Option "MinY" "3858"
# Option "MaxY" "272"
# Option "ScreenNumber" "0"
# Option "ReportingMode" "Scaled"
# Option "ButtonThreshold" "17"
# Option "ButtonNumber" "1"
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Section "Monitor"
Identifier "My Monitor"
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# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
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# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
HorizSync 31.5 - 57.0
# HorizSync 30-64 # multisync
# HorizSync 31.5, 35.2 # multiple fixed sync frequencies
# HorizSync 15-25, 30-50 # multiple ranges of sync frequencies
# VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
# VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
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# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
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# Any number of graphics device sections may be present
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Section "Device"
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VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
# The chipset line is optional in most cases. It can be used to override
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# Chipset "generic"
# The Driver line must be present. When using run-time loadable driver
# modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver
# module. Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line
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# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "* Generic VESA compatible"
Monitor "My Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
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Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
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Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
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EndSubsection
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# Any number of ServerLayout sections may be present. Each describes
# the way multiple screens are organised. A specific ServerLayout
# section may be specified from the X server command line with the
# "-layout" option. In the absence of this, the first section is used.
# When now ServerLayout section is present, the first Screen section
# is used alone.
Section "ServerLayout"
# The Identifier line must be present
Identifier "Simple Layout"
# Each Screen line specifies a Screen section name, and optionally
# the relative position of other screens. The four names after
# primary screen name are the screens to the top, bottom, left and right
# of the primary screen. In this example, screen 2 is located to the
# right of screen 1.
Screen "Screen 1"
# Each InputDevice line specifies an InputDevice section name and
# optionally some options to specify the way the device is to be
# used. Those options include "CorePointer", "CoreKeyboard" and
# "SendCoreEvents".
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
# Section "DRI"
# Mode 0666
# EndSection
$HOME/.xinitrc
exec xfce4-session
Last edited by azerty (2007-08-23 22:14:46)

Ok maybe it's a bit difficult to explain my problem.
Another try
I want Xfce' fonts to look like this
but currently it looks like this.
As I already know from my Xfce experiences with Debian, using a font like Monospace normally gives me a nice smooth font as in the first link/image. But currently I can chose Monospace or whatever, the font stays the same, even if I select Monospace the font stay as small and awkward as before. But as I said before Monospace should give me another font which, as stated above, would be very smooth.
Hopefully my problem is easier to understand know.
Thanks in advance.

[SOLVED] Firefox messes up ligatures when displaying Calibri font

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This problem has been bothering me for a while and I can't figure out what's wrong.
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Taille totale installé : 884,75 MiB
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chargement des fichiers des paquets...
recherche des conflits entre fichiers...
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fontconfig : /etc/fonts/conf.d/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf est déjà présent dans le système de fichiers
fontconfig : /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf est déjà présent dans le système de fichiers
fontconfig : /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-urw-aliases.conf est déjà présent dans le système de fichiers
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fontconfig : /etc/fonts/conf.d/45-latin.conf est déjà présent dans le système de fichiers
fontconfig : /etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf est déjà présent dans le système de fichiers
fontconfig : /etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf est déjà présent dans le système de fichiers
fontconfig : /etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf est déjà présent dans le système de fichiers
fontconfig : /etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf est déjà présent dans le système de fichiers
fontconfig : /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf est déjà présent dans le système de fichiers
fontconfig : /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf est déjà présent dans le système de fichiers
fontconfig : /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-unifont.conf est déjà présent dans le système de fichiers
fontconfig : /etc/fonts/conf.d/80-delicious.conf est déjà présent dans le système de fichiers
fontconfig : /etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf est déjà présent dans le système de fichiers
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When I saw this, I decided to save the diffrent files that were conflicting, copy them in a zip file and run the following command
sudo pacman -Syuf
After a reboot, the language turned from French to English. Now that the system is in english there are some french characters that don't display correctly. But when I went on the ArchLinux website, I saw that we had to manually delete the files before updating (that's when I felt stupid a little bit..).
But now that this is done, there may be other things buggy . First of all, I want to fix the language issue (it may be has to do with the fact that archlinux moved from initscript to systemd?). Then if anyone has any idea about what could have been messed up, let me know (and if you have a fix, I'd love to be whistled about that ).
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[2012-09-07 20:38] upgraded libdrm (2.4.38-1 -> 2.4.39-1)
[2012-09-07 20:38] upgraded libglapi (8.0.4-2 -> 8.0.4-3)
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[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded ati-dri (8.0.4-2 -> 8.0.4-3)
[2012-09-07 20:39] updating font cache... done.
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded fontconfig (2.8.0-2 -> 2.10.1-2)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded cantarell-fonts (0.0.8-1 -> 0.0.9-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded cracklib (2.8.18-2 -> 2.8.19-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded espeak (1.46.02-1 -> 1.46.02-2)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded filesystem (2012.7-1 -> 2012.8-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded libevent (2.0.19-1 -> 2.0.20-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded sqlite (3.7.13-1 -> 3.7.14-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded firefox (15.0-1 -> 15.0.1-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded firefox-i18n-fr (15.0-1 -> 15.0.1-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded fribidi (0.19.2-2 -> 0.19.4-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded gc (7.2-1 -> 7.2.d-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded gdk-pixbuf2 (2.26.2-1 -> 2.26.3-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded gnutls (3.0.22-1 -> 3.1.1-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded grep (2.13-2 -> 2.14-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded gtkmm3 (3.4.0-1 -> 3.4.1-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded hspell (1.1-2 -> 1.2-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded hwids (20120730-1 -> 20120831-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded imagemagick (6.7.8.9-1 -> 6.7.9.2-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded inetutils (1.9.1-2 -> 1.9.1-4)
[2012-09-07 20:39] :: Append 'init=/bin/systemd' to your kernel command line in your
[2012-09-07 20:39] bootloader to replace sysvinit with systemd
[2012-09-07 20:39] installed systemd (189-4)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded iproute2 (3.4.0-2 -> 3.5.1-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] installed sysvinit-tools (2.88-7)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded sysvinit (2.88-6 -> 2.88-7)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded initscripts (2012.08.2-1 -> 2012.08.3-2)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded jre7-openjdk-headless (7.u5_2.2.1-1 -> 7.u7_2.3.2-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded jre7-openjdk (7.u5_2.2.1-1 -> 7.u7_2.3.2-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded jdk7-openjdk (7.u5_2.2.1-1 -> 7.u7_2.3.2-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded khrplatform-devel (8.0.4-2 -> 8.0.4-3)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded less (444-3 -> 451-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded lib32-alsa-lib (1.0.25-1 -> 1.0.26-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded lib32-fontconfig (2.8.0-4 -> 2.10.1-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded lib32-libdrm (2.4.38-1 -> 2.4.39-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] installed lib32-sqlite (3.7.14-2)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded libatasmart (0.18-2 -> 0.19-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded libcups (1.6.1-5 -> 1.6.1-6)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded libedit (20120311_3.0-1 -> 20120601_3.0-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] installed libgbm (8.0.4-3)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded libegl (8.0.4-2 -> 8.0.4-3)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded libgssglue (0.3-1 -> 0.4-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded libmtp (1.1.3-1 -> 1.1.4-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded libquvi-scripts (0.4.7-1 -> 0.4.8-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded libreoffice-fr (3.5.6-1 -> 3.6.1-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] installed boost-libs (1.50.0-2)
[2012-09-07 20:39] installed clucene (2.3.3.4-6)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded libreoffice-common (3.5.6-1 -> 3.6.1-4)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded libreoffice-calc (3.5.6-1 -> 3.6.1-4)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded libreoffice-gnome (3.5.6-1 -> 3.6.1-4)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded libreoffice-impress (3.5.6-1 -> 3.6.1-4)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded libwps (0.2.2-2 -> 0.2.7-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded libreoffice-writer (3.5.6-1 -> 3.6.1-4)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded libvdpau (0.4.1-2 -> 0.5-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded libwebkit (1.8.2-1 -> 1.8.3-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] upgraded libwebkit3 (1.8.2-1 -> 1.8.3-1)
[2012-09-07 20:39] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2012-09-07 20:39] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
[2012-09-07 20:39] ==> Building image from preset: 'default'
[2012-09-07 20:39] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-09-07 20:39] ==> Starting build: 3.5.3-1-ARCH
[2012-09-07 20:39] -> Running build hook: [base]
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[2012-09-07 20:39] -> Running build hook: [scsi]
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[2012-09-07 20:39] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-09-07 20:39] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-09-07 20:39] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-09-07 20:39] ==> Building image from preset: 'fallback'
[2012-09-07 20:39] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2012-09-07 20:39] ==> Starting build: 3.5.3-1-ARCH
[2012-09-07 20:39] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2012-09-07 20:39] -> Running build hook: [udev]
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[2012-09-07 20:39] -> Running build hook: [scsi]
[2012-09-07 20:39] -> Running build hook: [sata]
[2012-09-07 20:39] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2012-09-07 20:39] -> Running build hook: [usbinput]
[2012-09-07 20:39] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2012-09-07 20:39] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-09-07 20:39] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2012-09-07 20:40] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-09-07 20:40] upgraded linux (3.4.9-1 -> 3.5.3-1)
[2012-09-07 20:40] upgraded mesa (8.0.4-2 -> 8.0.4-3)
[2012-09-07 20:40] upgraded mpfr (3.1.1-1 -> 3.1.1.p2-1)
[2012-09-07 20:40] upgraded netcfg (2.8.9-1 -> 2.8.10-1)
[2012-09-07 20:40] upgraded openssh (6.0p1-3 -> 6.1p1-2)
[2012-09-07 20:40] upgraded pkg-config (0.27-1 -> 0.27.1-1)
[2012-09-07 20:40] upgraded sane (1.0.22-9 -> 1.0.23-1)
[2012-09-07 20:40] upgraded sdl (1.2.15-1 -> 1.2.15-2)
[2012-09-07 20:40] installed lib32-v4l-utils (0.8.8-1)
[2012-09-07 20:40] upgraded skype (4.0.0.8-1 -> 4.0.0.8-3)
[2012-09-07 20:40] upgraded sudo (1.8.5.p3-1 -> 1.8.6-1)
[2012-09-07 20:40] upgraded vim-runtime (7.3.600-1 -> 7.3.659-1)
[2012-09-07 20:40] upgraded vim (7.3.600-1 -> 7.3.659-1)
[2012-09-07 20:40] upgraded vlc (2.0.3-2 -> 2.0.3-3)
[2012-09-07 20:40] upgraded wireless_tools (29-6 -> 29-7)
[2012-09-07 20:40] upgraded xorg-server-common (1.12.3.901-1 -> 1.12.4-1)
[2012-09-07 20:40] upgraded xorg-server (1.12.3.901-1 -> 1.12.4-1)
[2012-09-08 12:19] Running 'pacman -S libreoffice'
[2012-09-08 15:48] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2012-09-08 15:48] synchronizing package lists
[2012-09-08 15:48] starting full system upgrade
[2012-09-08 15:48] warning: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist installed as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew
[2012-09-08 15:48] upgraded pacman-mirrorlist (20120626-1 -> 20120908-1)
[2012-09-08 15:48] upgraded ppp (2.4.5-3 -> 2.4.5-4)
Last edited by sim590 (2012-09-11 19:20:46)

I think there's nothing new for me in what Tom posted. I already had the configuration set up in /etc/locale.conf.
LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
LC_TIME=fr_CA.UTF-8
However I noticed that when i shutdown my pc, some daemons fail to stop/execute themselves:
- Crond [FAIL]
- NetworkManger [FAIL]
- SIGTERM to process [FAIL]
- SIGKILL to process [FAIL]
WorMzy wrote:
sim590 wrote:I red in the manual that if you wanted to ignore file conflicts, you had to add the -f option .
Did you read this part?
This option should be used with care, ideally not at all.
You just forced 80 updates at once. Don't do that. The fontconfig update has it's own news post: News: Fontconfig 2.10.1 update - manual intervention required.
You should have read that.
Hopefully Tom's post will help you fix your language problem. In the future, don't force anything unless you're explicitly told to via news post.
I realize I shouldn't have done this, but it's by making errors you learn, isn't it? Now, Tom's post doesn't look useful since it seems it doesn't differ from my own configuration.
There's actually a person who had a similar problem (I think) as we can see in Tom's post comments since he has this too:
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
But his system is configured with systemd when my configuration is with initscripts... So the problem isn't solved yet!

[SOLVED] Font Unreadable after XOrg 1.5 HELP!!!

Previoulsy on mi PC:
All work right, including COMPIZ with all Effects Enabled.
One Day:
pacman -Syu cause update to xorg1.5 and BOOM
all Fonts on Title bar of all windows became unreadable and the problem will be extended on all rendering windows of any game including FIREFOX.
PLEASE i need help..
Thx in advance. (and sorry for my poor english.. i'm italian)
Last edited by magiusche (2008-12-06 04:10:05)

yes my first step has been WIKI, then SEARCH on this forum but no answer or solution i've found.
But...
I think i i've solved the problem.
I dunno exactly how but using Kde4 System Settings / Aspects / Font
set Anti-aliasing at System Default
set Force DPI to disabled.

Fonts messing up on non-english windows

I'm using Director 10.1 and Flash 8 Xtra for a 5 language
DVD-ROM, English, Spanish,French, German and Italian. The etxt is
stored in Director code and sent to several Flash 8 movies to
display them
Got results from my testing house today to say certain
characters not appearing when Spanish and Simplified Chinesse set
as OS Language on Win XP SP2. Both my flash movies and Director
text fields display ? instead of the relevant character. Sometimes
the character has an accent above it othertimes just a regular
letter like e or g. I am using embed fonts in both Director and
Flash. Avenir LT 85 Heavy seems to generate these ? and on some
screens in Director using regular text members the layout messes
(words apearing one character at a time on a line) when I use
Avenir 45 Book.
Now on my UK PC all 5 languages display fine, it's just on
these test machines.
Any thoughts as to what might be causing this?
Thanks
Kevin Boyd

> Have you tried to install the coreesponding fonts on
your test machines? I
> blieve that if a font is missing from a machine director
will replace it
> automaticaly with a default font, somethign which
usually result to the
effect
> that you are describing
Shouldn't be an issue if the font is embedded. The only thing
I can think
of is make sure that you're using the embedded version of the
font for every
text/field object. (There should be an * next to the font
name.) Also, is
this text set by the program? Or is it entered by the user?
If it's
user-entered text, a non-English keyboard may be inputting
foreign
characters which your embedded font may not support.
(Particularly the
Chinese one.) If it's necessary for the foreign-language user
to input
text, you may have to make some sort of conversion code to
make sure that
it's fully compatible.
I really hope that Adobe can do what Macromedia never would
and put Unicode
support into the next version of Director. Most problems like
this would go
away if they did that.

[solved] Beryl messes up my screen - I don't know why!

I tried to configure beryl on my new Thinkpad X60 (which has an Intel GMA950). I use the very same settings that worked on my old notebook, too (it had an i810 graphics device, so I use the same driver), AIGLX, to be more precise.
I can start Beryl with 'beryl-manager', that's no problem and it almost works as it's supposed to be. But if I move windows, occasionally their content get's messed up and is unreadable. If I use the manager to switch back to metacity everything looks neat again.
Any ideas where I might have failed in configuring correctly?
Last edited by saciel (2007-07-23 11:42:57)

Ok, it's solved... The problem was I didn't get it working at all on first tries. So I copied all the settings from my old laptop, which made it working but caused the mess. Now, in "Advanced Beryl Settings" I switched everything back to "Automatic" and it works out better... but: I still got that mess beneath the active window. Switching of "blur" in 'Beryl Settings Manager' did the job, there. So everything is neat again!

How do I solve font changes when downloading a PDF document?

When downloading some PDF documents, the font changes. I have tried several troubleshooting solutions, but my issue was not solved. What can I do to prevent this from happening or if it does, to remedy the problem?

Yes, Ajlan, thank you. I solved the issue by opening PDF documents of unwanted fonts with another PDF document reader. When I open my files folder, there is an option (drop down box) at the top that allows for me to choose from either Adobe Reader or PDF Vista. It may have been there all along; I just didn't notice it until I recently had this issue.
Take care :-)
Angela

Safari fonts messed up

My sister's computer has really messed up fonts in Safari. It's sort of looks like the marker felt font. And the preferences are set to normal fonts but this font still appears.
-Thanks

. It's sort of looks like the marker felt font. And the preferences are set to normal fonts but this font still appears.
The preferences do not override the fonts specified by the code of the pages you view. You need to get rid of the marker felt font, which is probably junk and substituting for the real helvetica or times or whatever the page code is requesting.

Wierd font mess when creating iphoto cards

Hello!
Here's the issue:
Every time I type in my text for a card and then I go to change the font or the font size it messes EVERYTHING (all the text anyway) up!. The wierd thing is that it doesn't change the text to the font I select, it changes it to ONE font below the font I select. So.... If I WANT say "Helvetica" I have to choose "Hiku" which is one below helvetica alphabetically, or if I want to choose say "Baskerville" then I have to actually select "Bookman". Very strange and frustrating! How can I get iphoto to accept the fonts i'm selecting? Selecting the font sizes does the same thing to mess everything up.
G4 Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

graphicdzine,
Sounds like a possible font problem to me.
I would recommend that you check out Font Management in Mac OS X Tiger and Panther, by Kurt Lang.
;~)

[SOLVED] Fonts different in Chromium and Firefox

I've installed all the microsoft fonts by copying over the TTF files from a windows installation, and as you can see, the fonts work in Firefox but not Chromium.
How can I configure Chromium to use the MS fonts correctly? In Chromium settings I have Arial set as my default Sans-serif font but it doesn't seem to work correctly. Clearly the font is installed because Firefox is using it and I can select it as my default font in Chromium
Last edited by Tom B (2014-10-16 12:31:45)

I finally worked out what the issue is. When I pasted the fonts in /usr/share/fonts and ran fc-cache -vf I pasted as root (because /usr/share/fonts isn't writeable by other users) but I never set the permissions on the files themselves! running chmod * 755 on in the /microsoft/ directory I created then fc-cache -vf solved the issue!
Last edited by Tom B (2014-10-16 12:35:47)

[Solved] Font problem when trying to start qmon (sun grid engine)

When I tried to start the qmon (queue monitor program), the error message show up as below:
[root@sge01 ~]# qmon
Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*--14-*-*-*-p-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*--14-*-*-*-p-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*--20-*-*-*-p-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*--12-*-*-*-p-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*--24-*-*-*-p-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-courier-medium-r-*--14-*-*-*-m-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-courier-bold-r-*--14-*-*-*-m-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-courier-medium-r-*--12-*-*-*-m-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*--10-*-*-*-p-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)
Serial number of failed request: 514
Current serial number in output stream: 525
[root@sge01 ~]#
I have all the fonts from the official depository installed (verified by the command # pacman -Ssq font ). I use LXDE and the system has been updated.
Is there anything I can do to run this program?
Last edited by teetee1 (2013-08-28 04:24:40)

Thanks for the link. I was able to solve the font errors quickly, which is great!
Unfortunately some other errors remain:
X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)
Serial number of failed request: 478
Current serial number in output stream: 489
I've tried to follow instructions from the links below:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1778584
http://www.edaboard.com/thread139363.html
But realized I already have the xorg- 100dpi and 75dpi fonts by checking with the pacman command: pacman -Ssq 100dpi (and 75dpi).
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Lots of fonts messed up. /etc/fonts/ dissapeared :s

I started up arch today and went to open something in mousepad, i noticed that monospace was messed up so i ran "fc-cache -fv" as root and normal user again. Then rebooted now there are more fonts that have messed up like sans etc.
Anyone know how to fix this? Here's the output of fc-cache.
[ash@breakage ~]$ fc-cache -fv
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
/usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 10 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/100dpi: caching, new cache contents: 398 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi: caching, new cache contents: 398 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/TTF: caching, new cache contents: 62 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/Type1: caching, new cache contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts: caching, new cache contents: 16 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/local: caching, new cache contents: 26 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/misc: caching, new cache contents: 55 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/util: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
fc-cache: succeeded
I also noticed on starting up arch it gives an error something like "unable to load default font"
Edit: Also just noticed that the /etc/fonts/ folder has dissapeared.
Last edited by Breakage (2008-02-17 18:36:36)

Thanks fwojciec, just worked that out seconds before thanks for the reply though man.
It worked too, strange that the whole folder just disappeared.
Last edited by Breakage (2008-02-17 18:37:12)

[SOLVED] Fonts messed up

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