Crappy fonts

Peter Backlund peter.backlund at gmail.com
Wed May 4 09:59:56 UTC 2005


sön 2005-05-01 klockan 11:00 -0700 skrev Michael A. Peters:
> On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 23:35 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> 
> > > My fonts are just fine - every bit as good as FC3.  I have not changed lang.
> > > 
> > > I tested konsole (not kconsole) and they look fine there.
> > > 
> > > Gerry
> > 
> > Could it be some kind of antialias he has turned on for fc3 but not fc4?
> > 
> 
> My fonts changed after installing sun java 1.5 (using  jPackage) - and
> they are uglified, I'm not sure what caused it. On my laptop the same
> thing did NOT happen when installing the jpackage Sun Java rpm's - so I
> don't know what to think. But one day, they were the same defaults as
> what I have on FC3, I install Java, and then they are weird. I wonder if
> the font cache got screwed up or something.

The jpackage "-fonts" subpackage installs Lucida Unicode sans as default
sans serif font. Uninstall that package, and you are back to normal.

/Peter




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