How to disable urw fonts?

Pyrates · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 97

They look terrible in my browser, but they somehow shove themselves to the front. I tried unmerging, but ghostscript-gpl depends on them, so I can't easily get rid of the package.

What do I need to do to disable them? I removed `30-urw-aliases.con` from `/etc/fonts/conf.d` to no avail. Fonts generally seem to be beyond my understanding, so any help is appreciated. I looked at the fontconfig wiki entry, but saw no mention of disabling certain fonts.

Thanks for any help

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mike155 · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 2:57 pm Post subject:

Hi Pyrates,

Pyrates · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 97

Hey mike155, thanks for your answer

mike155 · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 4:30 pm Post subject:

Please post version and USE flags of the packages below:

fontconfig
freetype
firefox or firefox-bin

Output of "eix fontconfig", "eix freetype" and "eix firefox" would be nice.

Pyrates · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 97

Sure thing:

mike155 · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 11:35 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the data. Everything seems to be OK...

Please look at the output of "eselect fontconfig list".

If "57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf", "57-dejavu-sans.conf" and "57-dejavu-serif.conf" are disabled: enable them using "eselect fontconfig enable <number>". Restart your browser and see if the problems are gone.

If they were already enabled, please post the output of:

Pyrates · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 97

I rechecked, and the fonts I'm using are the liberation fonts. Therefore, I enabled `60-liberation.conf`, to no avail. Here's the additional output:

mike155 · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 8:48 pm Post subject:

Pyrates · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 97

I'm really thankfull for your patient help, you know? Thanks

Here's the output:

mike155 · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 10:09 pm Post subject:

Hi Pyrates,

I'm a bit surprised that fc-match didn't show any mapping to URW fonts. On the other hand: that's good! As far as I can see, your font system (fontconfig, freetype, etc) is fine. I guess there's something wrong with the configuration of your browser.

First of all: you are right - https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ offers web fonts - but they don't work. See next post.

Please look at the font settings of Firefox: Preference -> Contents -> Advanced: there are TWO pages in which you must define default fonts: "Latin" AND "Other Writing Systems".

If this doesn't help, you could start Firefox with an empty configuration file and see if the problem disappears. Either rename ~/.mozilla/firefox to something else before starting Firefox or create a new user and start Firefox from this user.

I'm afraid I don't have any more ideas...

Good luck!

Mike

mike155 · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 11:39 pm Post subject:

I tried to understand why web fonts at https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ don't work.

The reason is simple: the @font definitions in the CSS file are wrong. A leading slash is missing. They have:

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