On Tuesday 11 November 2003 8:06, Vaidotas Zemlys wrote: > I had this problem for a long time. Then one day I got really upset and > figured out which font fontconfig chooses instead of my beloved fixed font. > As it turns out it was 12x13ja.pcf. (The ugly font in the bottom) So I > manually removed it from my system. Here how it goes: > > cd /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc > rm 12x13ja.pcf.gz > update-fonts-dir misc > fc-cache > > And voila now there is no problem choosing fixed font in gnome. It is not > nice solution, I have to do it everytime X window system is updated (or > only fonts), yet not one of the solutions provided on this list (there were > some) provided me with the same results. In my case I did not manage to > force fontconfig to choose font: > 7x13 or > 7x13 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso8859-13 Thank you for this! I've been frustrated by getting this big, ugly font for fixed in KDE's konsole for a long time as well. While your workaround is not perfect, it does fix the problem for me. Thanks! Have you filed a bug on this in Debian? And how did you track down which font was the problem? Frank
