Okay. I screwed up. It happens, okay?
I was playing around with Fontmatrix. I was trying to figure out how to deactivate a *single* font. All of a sudden, wush! All the desktop fonts changed to something ugly. I tried to reactivate every font using Fontmatrix, rebooted, but no change.
How do I get back to using the default F12 desktop font assignments?
Thanks!
Kirk
I figured out how to restore the original system fonts, and I thought I'd report it here, since this seems to be less well-known knowledge:
1. The key is in understanding how fontconfig (http://docs.fedoraproject.org/deployment-guide/f12/en-US/html/s1-x-fonts.html) works and how Fontmatrix interacts with it.
I compared my home directory with a colleagues whose F12 system was working right. My directory had three relevant files/directories: .fontconfig, .fonts and .fonts.config. My colleague had just one: .fontconfig. Now, .fonts is the directory for installing local fonts, which is okay, since I had installed some special fonts I use. This means the .fonts.config file was something added by Fontmatrix. Indeed, looking at the xml file there was a long list of system fonts tagged as <rejected>!? To clear the problem:
2. yum erase fontmatrix
3. rm -rf ~/.Fontmatrix
4. rm ~/.fonts.config
5. logged out as my user; logged back in. This restarted X, which is the essential task.
I probably didn't have to remove Fontmatrix and the .Fontmatrix directory. But I wanted to start with a clean set up. Probably all I needed to do was remove .fonts.config and restart X.
Hope this helps someone else recover when fonts go crazy. :-)
Kirk
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