Hi. I'm having some strange problems with font selection in GTK+
applications. First, in my gtk2rc, I have
gtk-font-name = "DejaVu Sans 8"
which gives me nice latin fonts. However, Japanese text looks really
bad, because GTK+ is choosing IPAGothic over other, nicer fonts. I
looked at my fontconfig settings, and sure enough, IPAGothic is listed
quite high in the default preference list. To fix that, I edited
~/.fonts.conf and put the following:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Sans</family>
<family>M+ 2p</family>
<family>Kochi Gothic</family>
<family>IPAGothic</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
</fontconfig>
But now Kochi Gothic is preferred over M+ 2p, which is better than
before but still not ideal. It seems that I can make almost any other
kind of preference I want, but GTK+ applications will never choose the
M+ 2p font! Qt seems to have no trouble with this configuration, and
uses M+ 2p for Japanese text.
Running fc-match -s 'DejaVu Sans 8' reflects my above configuration
exactly (output appended). What am I doing wrong here, and how can I
get GTK+ to choose the right fonts? Thanks.
% fc-match -s 'DejaVu Sans 8'
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold"
DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Oblique"
DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold Oblique"
mplus-2p-medium.ttf: "M+ 2p" "medium"
kochi-gothic-subst.ttf: "Kochi Gothic" "Regular"
ipag.ttf: "IPAGothic" "Regular"
n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular"
arial.ttf: "Arial" "Normal"
helvR12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz: "Helvetica" "Regular"
gkai00mp.ttf: "AR PL KaitiM GB" "Regular"
bkai00mp.ttf: "AR PL KaitiM Big5" "Regular"
dotum.ttf: "Baekmuk Dotum" "Regular"
gulim.ttf: "Baekmuk Gulim" "Regular"
Meiryo, Regular.ttc: "Meiryo" "Normal"
cour.ttf: "Courier New" "Normal"
DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"
DejaVuSerif.ttf: "DejaVu Serif" "Book"
ariblk.ttf: "Arial Black" "Normal"
webdings.ttf: "Webdings" "Regular"
ukai.ttc: "AR PL UKai CN" "Book"
ukai.ttc: "AR PL UKai HK" "Book"
ukai.ttc: "AR PL UKai TW MBE" "Book"
s050000l.pfb: "Standard Symbols L" "Regular"
uming.ttc: "AR PL UMing CN" "Light"
DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Bold"
DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf: "DejaVu Serif" "Bold"
DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf: "DejaVu Serif" "Italic"
DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.ttf: "DejaVu Serif" "Bold Italic"
12x13ja.pcf.gz: "Fixed" "ja"
6x12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz: "Fixed" "SemiCondensed"
6x12.pcf.gz: "Fixed" "SemiCondensed"
6x13.pcf.gz: "Fixed" "SemiCondensed"
ter-112n.pcf.gz: "Terminus" "Regular"
9x15.pcf.gz: "Fixed" "Regular"
9x18.pcf.gz: "Fixed" "Regular"
10x20.pcf.gz: "Fixed" "Regular"
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Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
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