On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Ankur Sethi <get.me.ankur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I recently installed emacs-color-theme from AUR which, for some reason, required > xorg-fonts-100dpi. After installing xorg-fonts-100dpi, some websites in Firefox > no longer have antialiased fonts. For example, this is what the Mozilla > Developer Center looks like on my computer: > > http://imagebin.org/203464 > > I see the same issue on Twitter, Hacker News and several blogs. Removing > xorg-fonts-100dpi fixes the issue. > > I've checked my installed pacakges and I have all the web fonts that are > recommended by the Arch Wiki. In any case, I don't think missing fonts are the > issue here. The same websites that look wonky in Firefox work well on both > Chrome and Opera. > > Secondly, the emacs-color-theme package from AUR works just fine without > xorg-fonts-100dpi. I don't understand why that is listed as a dependency in the > PKGBUILD. > > So can someone enlighten me? Why does emacs-color-theme require > xorg-fonts-100dpi, and why does installing xorg-fonts-100dpi make Firefox sad? > > -- > Ankur Sethi Try the following: sudo ln -s ../conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d That should reject bitmap fonts in all applications using fontconfig. To revert this change: sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
