[SOLVED] How to reset system font settings

Question

HI All,
In my efforts to get decent looking fonts, I have somehow ended up with a system where the fonts are always sub-optimal no matter what I do.   I installed DejaVu-ttf and also the Infinality font set.
I'm not sure how Infinality is supposed to work, but the impression I got from reading instructions is that it is a drop-in replacement of the system fonts, but now that I have mucked with things too much I'm not sure I'm seeing the best result I can get.
Is there a way to just reset my KDE font config to the default (hopefully without resetting my entire desktop)?
Thanks,
Chris
Last edited by cgrif (2013-07-20 04:20:06)

Answer 1

Thank you Boohomil,
I set up the .Xresources with the code you included, but even if I xrdb it directly, I cannot see the xft stuff in the output of env.  Not sure what's wrong with that. 
However, I set up everything else the way you recommended and things are looking a bit better.   I actually have messed with the KDE font settings, but following cfr's advice, I just set everything to Liberation as in the xml code.   
For some reason the fonts look much better when I run Gnome than KDE, which bothers me immensely.  I moved to Arch because I want to learn to have control of everything, but it looks like I'm kind of stuck on the fonts!   No worries, I'll keep chipping away at it as I have time.   
Thanks a lot,
Chris
bohoomil wrote:
First of all, I'm not sure what your KDE font settings look like. I believe you've left everything as is, so open your control panel and duplicate the values from /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-base-rendering.conf in the appropriate section. This should include hintstyle=slight, antialias=true, subpixel order=rgb, dpi=96. You may try using hintstyle=full if necessary.
Next, check your xft settings. You should see the following:
$ env | grep Xft
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.autohint: 0
Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.hinting: 1
Xft.hintstyle: hintfull
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault
Xft.rgba: rgb
If the output is different, put the values above to your .Xresources file and make sure it gets loaded with your desktop. This should basically duplicate the values you have already set in your KDE control panel.
Next, check if your fontconfig settings are loaded properly. Simply run 'env | grep INFINALITY' and if you get a list of entries starting with INFINALITY_FT_, then everything is OK.
Finally, try changing your default fonts. DejaVu is fine as a backup family, but using it as a base one is not a good idea. If you have access to Win 7/8 fonts, use them. If not, check Liberation, ChromesOS or Droid families. Install them all and set the defaults in $HOME/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/65-latin.conf:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<!-- ## serif ## -->
<alias>
<family>serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Liberation Serif</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<!-- ## sans-serif ## -->
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Liberation Sans</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<!-- ## monospace ## -->
<alias>
<family>monospace</family>
<prefer>
<family>Liberation Mono</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
</fontconfig>
If you are going to use Windows fonts and don't want to change anything, you don't need this file. By the way, you can find it along with other examples in the infinality-bundle documentation.