John Lowell wrote: > I must confess, after having written here earlier and not having > gotten a reply and having done much additional research since without > making much headway, I remain baffled respecting different font > behavior using fontconfig in two distros. Let me restate the problem, > perhaps someone can provide light at this point. > > I'm trying to understand why it is that using Gentoo and > gtk-theme-switch (which relies on fontconfig to change fonts and > themes in various applications) I'm offered a different font selection > than that offered in Debian or Arch using the very same program. > Configuring /etc/fonts/local.conf to identify a special font directory > in each case (/usr/local/share/fonts in Debian and /usr/share/fonts in > Gentoo and Arch) and copying identical font directories from > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts into these directories, gtk-theme-switch > offers entirely different font interpretations in each case. For > example, lucida regular is shown in gtk-theme-switch as an option in > Debian but when it's selected, lucida semi-bold is the one actually > offered. With Gentoo, the same selection yields lucida regular, medium > weight. Why would it be that there is a difference here? One would > think that lucida regular means lucida regular. I'd really appreciate > some help with this question. I mean if I can't get it here, where can > help be obtained? > > John Lowell could this have anything to do with defoma?
