[solved] "monospace" font displayed as some other font
For some reason (that I am unable to figure out for myself), the "monospace" font on my system is not displayed as such, but replaced by some other font, presumably* by the last one installed to the system. See this screenshot of uzbl-browser as an example; leafpad's font-selection dialog would be another.
* A while back (don't remember when) "monospace" started being displayed as some pleasant sans-serif font, which I did not investigate. When I installed some blackletter fonts (ttf-unifraktur) recently, it started being displayed as one of them, which is more of a nuisance, see screenshot.)
What could be going on here? What is the "monospace" font anyway?
Last edited by Franek (2014-02-27 20:54:20)
First: I probably should have mentioned that I am using the infinality-bundle and infinality-bundle-fonts repositories.
(Re-)Installing ttf-dejavu instantly made uzbl pretty again. But actually, I did not have ttf-dejavu installed in the first place, but t1-dejavu-ib from the infinality-bundle-fonts repository. When I change back to t1-dejavu-ib, Monospace is displayed as a blackletter font again.
Here is the output of "fc-match monospace" with ttf-dejavu installed:
$ fc-match monospace
DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"
And here it is with t1-dejavu-ib:
$ fc-match monospace
sawarabi-gothic-medium.ttf: "Sawarabi Gothic" "Medium"
About this font (which is certainly not the blackletter font I am seeing in uzbl):
$ pacman -Qs sawarabi
local/ttf-sawarabi-ib 0.0045-2 (infinality-bundle-fonts)
Sawarabi font family for Japanese script.
I have nothing in ~/.config/fontconfig, whereas /etc/fonts/conf.d/ is filled with several symlinks, most of which belong to the fontconfig-infinality-ultimate package. They all look alright to me, or rather: I trust that the infinality-bundle(-fonts) packages are doing the right thing. (Should I ask bohoomil about this?) Here is a list:
$ pacman -Qo /etc/fonts/conf.d/*
/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-base-rendering.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/31-fix-cantarell.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/35-repl-custom.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/40-non-latin.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/42-luxi-mono.conf is owned by font-bh-ttf 1.0.3-1
/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-latin.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-ttf-noto-sans-ui.conf is owned by ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib 1.04-2
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-ttf-noto-sans.conf is owned by ttf-noto-sans-multilang-ib 1.04-2
/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-ttf-noto-serif.conf is owned by ttf-noto-serif-multilang-ib 1.04-2
/etc/fonts/conf.d/68-override.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/82-no-embedded-bitmaps.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/82-no-force-autohint.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/82-no-ttf-as-bitmap.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/83-yes-bitmaps.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/83-yes-postscript.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/88-forced-synthetic.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-dejavu-t1.conf is owned by t1-dejavu-ib 2.34-4
/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-non-tt-fonts.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-opensans-t1.conf is owned by t1-opensans-ib 1.2-7
/etc/fonts/conf.d/90-tt-fonts.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/92-selective-rendering.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/93-final-rendering.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/94-no-synthetic.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/95-reject.conf is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
/etc/fonts/conf.d/99pdftoopvp.conf is owned by cups-filters 1.0.46-1
/etc/fonts/conf.d/README is owned by fontconfig-infinality-ultimate 2.11.0-15
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