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07 Dec 2015, 6:53 am

How do you keep gsfonts installed in Arch Linux but disable them?

I need gsfonts for gimp (dependency) and they make Wrong Planet and a few other sties look horrible, is there another way to install gimp? I can't change my desktop preferences cause I don't have a desktop, I am using a windows manager (spectrwm). The only application that seems to be affected by this font is Firefox, how can I change Firefox font preferences on Linux?

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08 Dec 2015, 5:26 am

You should be able to change the fonts the same way that you do on any other system that firefox supports. 'Edit>Preferances> Content' , and edit from there. Perhaps your WM only supports the basic X11 fontset?


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08 Dec 2015, 6:53 pm

dcj123 wrote:
How do you keep gsfonts installed in Arch Linux but disable them?

I need gsfonts for gimp (dependency) and they make Wrong Planet and a few other sties look horrible, is there another way to install gimp? I can't change my desktop preferences cause I don't have a desktop, I am using a windows manager (spectrwm). The only application that seems to be affected by this font is Firefox, how can I change Firefox font preferences on Linux?

Thxs,

Possible workaround, problem was reported a couple months ago:
bbs.archlinux.org


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09 Dec 2015, 5:21 am

Fogman wrote:
You should be able to change the fonts the same way that you do on any other system that firefox supports. 'Edit>Preferances> Content' , and edit from there. Perhaps your WM only supports the basic X11 fontset?


Doesn't work, thanks though.

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Possible workaround, problem was reported a couple months ago:
bbs.archlinux.org


I saw this right before you posted it, thanks. I believe this will fix my problem but I can't get fontconfig to read the file in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf and a comment says not to edit /etc/fonts/fonts.conf directly. I wish there was a wiki page on fontconfig but I'll figure it out, like I said, I believe this will solve my problem.



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09 Dec 2015, 11:22 am

dcj123 wrote:
Fogman wrote:
You should be able to change the fonts the same way that you do on any other system that firefox supports. 'Edit>Preferances> Content' , and edit from there. Perhaps your WM only supports the basic X11 fontset?


Doesn't work, thanks though.

Edenthiel wrote:
Possible workaround, problem was reported a couple months ago:
bbs.archlinux.org


I saw this right before you posted it, thanks. I believe this will fix my problem but I can't get fontconfig to read the file in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf and a comment says not to edit /etc/fonts/fonts.conf directly. I wish there was a wiki page on fontconfig but I'll figure it out, like I said, I believe this will solve my problem.

I assume you've already found this?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration


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09 Dec 2015, 1:47 pm

Edenthiel wrote:
I assume you've already found this?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration


I had not, I gave up and was playing Skyrim out of laziness, this fixed the problem. Thank you Edenthiel, I don't how I missed that. I'll mark the thread as solved if I can.



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09 Dec 2015, 3:12 pm

dcj123 wrote:
Edenthiel wrote:
I assume you've already found this?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration


I had not, I gave up and was playing Skyrim out of laziness, this fixed the problem. Thank you Edenthiel, I don't how I missed that. I'll mark the thread as solved if I can.

You missed it b/c it's impossible to find! I ended up google site: searching for the string, fontconfig.
Glad it's fixed.


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