FC3T2 - Font issue

ByteEnable ByteEnable at austin.rr.com
Wed Sep 29 13:59:00 UTC 2004


Owen Taylor wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 02:17 -0500, ByteEnable wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm running the latest development xorg-6.8.1-X.  I noticed today that 
>>the helvetica font is ugly.  How can I override xorg Helvetica with my 
>>own substitute?  Can I do it with ~/.fonts/fonts.conf ?
>>
>>I googled some old stuff, but nothing new, and no examples of overriding 
>>a font, just adding new fonts.  Any help appreciated.
> 
> 
> Insufficient information here to comment. What application are you
> using, how did you select "helvetica"? Screenshots are also extremely
> useful for "font is ugly" bugs.
> 
> Regards,
> 						Owen
> 
> 

Its using the helvetica fonts that come with xorg, i.e., the font.conf 
in /etc/fonts/font.conf

I have installed a different helvetica font and want to make that 
<family> the default font for helvetica.

Thanks,

Byte




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