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Proper setup of XFCE with Compiz (fonts, cursors, tooltips)

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https://bbs.archlinux.org – Well I hate to keep bothering the good people of the forums with so many questions but I got such good information last time I can't help but ask how to solve some additional issues I've run into.  I'm sure the information is out there somewhere, I just haven't been able to find it and I figure it can't hurt to ask.1.  Fonts.  I initially ran yaourt cairo-ubuntu and copied some config info into /etc/fonts/conf.avail/51-local.conf.  This made the fonts look great everywhere except the terminal, so to try and fix the terminal fonts I ran pacman -S ttf (HowTos)

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Andreas Radke wrote: The fontconfig 2.10.1 update overwrites symlinks created by the former package version.

If you don't have any custom rules, you shouldn't have a local.conf either. Read the content of fonts.conf.EDIT: Packages often put their fontconfig files in /etc/fonts/conf.avail/ and symlink to them from /etc/fonts/conf.d/.

mariusmeyer https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=25244

2012-09-20T20:39:23Z

Per user fonts.conf file 30 weeks 2 days ago

In Kubuntu 12.04 using man fonts.conf i read:

~/.fonts.conf is the conventional location for per-user font configuration, although the actual location is specified in the global fonts.conf file.

But in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf i cannot find any settings giving me that local conf file path.

I am asking this, because in 12.10 the same command give me:

reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf

I think what you can try is to symlink one of those files into /etc/fonts/conf.d, and see if your fonts look better afterward.To set to try BGR,ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf /etc/fonts/conf.dAlso, it may be your desktop environment will let you set this instead of symlinking.  I know KDE lets you select subpixel order, as well as xfce4.   Probably gnome as well,

fonts in chromium/gmail blurry 42 weeks 5 days ago

oh, maybe...

Fonts disappearing 2 years 44 weeks ago

I just installed my Windows fonts like I normally do(/usr/share/fonts/truetype/fonts). I did sudo fc-cache -f -v and restarted. When I logged on and went too Google there were no fonts on the page. I tried other websites such as this forum, Neowin and Bing. All didn't have fonts. FontyPython said "Font may be bad and cannot be drawn."

I copied a bunch of .ttf and otf fonts into ~/.fonts, made sure permissions where set to my user/group and ran fc-cache ~/.fonts.

Opened up GIMP and Geany but the fonts aren't available. Any idea what's up?

I just used the file you can find here:http://wiki.debian.org/Fonts/#Subpixel- … -smoothingI created a .fonts.conf file, and added the settings specified in that page, and wowowow, now my system looks waaaay better - just like Ubuntu.Shouldn't something like this be added by default? Would it make sense?

Manually installing fonts 47 weeks 5 days ago

Oh great, I just did a complete new installation and just before making a backup I did the same thing again!

I copied a folder with fonts to /usr/share/fonts/newfonts, tried to use fc-cache and some other commands that were listed in a guide about installing fonts in firefox and one of them did not work and now Firefox does not have any fonts anymore.