> Make the fonts you prefer appear before the fonts you dislike > and fontconfig will happily provide them first in the list to > the application. Sorry, that doesn't have any effect here. I attach my .fonts.conf file. Putting your lines into /etc/fonts/local.conf didn't change anything either. Maybe it does have something to do with the seeming Greek non-parallelism and fc-list strangeness that I described? What is the current preferred email address for the fontconfig list? Cheers, Stefan -- Stefan Baums Asian Languages and Literature University of Washington -------------- next part -------------- <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" > <const> rgb </const> </edit> </match> <dir>~/.fonts</dir> <!-- This is here to prevent QT/KDE fetching Cyrillic glyphs from the Arphic Chinese fonts. Doesn't work, though. --> <alias> <family>sans-serif</family> <prefer> <family>Free Helvetian</family> </prefer> </alias> <alias> <family>serif</family> <prefer> <family>Free Times</family> </prefer> </alias> <alias> <family>monospace</family> <prefer> <family>Free Courier</family> </prefer> </alias> </fontconfig>