[Solved] Gnome monospace bold font

For some reason my monospace bold font in gnome seems to be messed-up (see image below). It's starting to get really annoying and I'm not sure how to fix it. I've read through most of the font wiki material but I still can't figure it out. Does anyone have any idea how I can change it?
Edit: Thumb-nailed the image
Last edited by emphire (2012-02-24 18:59:16)

emphire wrote:Do you know if there's a way to change what fonts are returned by fc-match?
This is complicated by my unfamiliarity with Gnome. Gnome has been known to have its own way with font configurations (I think due to pango). I could never find the following information stated plainly enough for me to understand on first reading. This is my attempt at clarity. Any corrections are welcome.
The fc-match command shows which font an application will be given when it requests a particular font. If an app should ask for 'monospace', fc-match will show the best match it can find after applying the system and user configuration rules.
The font is matched according to the rules in the configuration files: '~/.font.conf', '/etc/fonts/local.conf' (deprecated), and '/etc/fonts/conf.d'.
The font cache (the coded results of the applied rules appear in '~/.fontconfig/') is rebuilt when the user logs into X. You can also force a rebuild with the command:
$ fc-cache -f
If the file exists, it is safe to rename '~/.font.conf' to another filename and rebuild the font cache with the command given above.
If that doesn't help restore fonts to a sane state, rename '/etc/fonts/local.conf' (if it exists) to something else and rebuild the cache again.
The rules given in '/etc/fonts/conf.d/' should be symlinks to a larger list of rules in '/etc/fonts/conf.avail/'. Check with 'ls -l' to make sure they are just symlinks. The rules are applied for font substitution and display in reverse numerical order. That is, rule 99-* is applied first and then rule 98-*. The lower numbered rule is the rule that "wins" if there are any conflicts.
The easiest way to go back to Arch's default rules is to delete the symlinks in '/etc/fonts/conf.d/' and then reinstall the fontconfig package. If you want to do it manually, these are the symlinks created using the latest fontconfig package:
20-fix-globaladvance.conf
20-unhint-small-vera.conf
29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf
30-metric-aliases.conf
30-urw-aliases.conf
40-nonlatin.conf
45-latin.conf
49-sansserif.conf
50-user.conf
51-local.conf
60-latin.conf
65-fonts-persian.conf
65-nonlatin.conf
69-unifont.conf
80-delicious.conf
90-synthetic.conf
If you don't reinstall fontconfig, you will have to rebuild the font cache with the 'fc-cache -f' command.
Finally, go to the Gnome font selection tool and select some variation of the DejaVu fonts for each font face. If this works, then make your preferred choices over DejaVu in Gnome. I could easily be missing some configuration file for Gnome in these instructions.
The wiki contains much of this information.
Last edited by thisoldman (2012-02-24 02:47:57)

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